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lpv:speaker	lp:Fiona Hall2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, we should celebrate the progress towards the digital single market because this is an area where the EU has delivered tangible results for its citizens. Earlier this week there was a further round of cuts to roaming charges. It has become the annual good news story at the start of the holiday season but we need to take the final steps and put in place a fully competitive single market in which roaming charges are obsolete. The Commission has the support of the ALDE Group in driving this forward. I would like to be able to tell my constituents that there will be an end to roaming charges not in five years time but next year. I also hope that by next summer we will have other good news on the digital agenda. I hope businesses, especially rural businesses, will have better access to the latest technologies, including superfast broadband. I hope that more initiatives will be underway to ensure that older people and people with disabilities are not excluded from the benefits that the digital age can offer and indeed that they are able to seize the opportunities which are there. I hope that I will be able to reassure businesses that European action is tackling cyber crime, and removing the barriers to cross-border trading such as the cross-border delivery problems mentioned by the Commissioner. I also hope that our small businesses will be able to benefit from this initiative, not just the high-tech companies but the high-street traders as well. I would love to take the Commissioner to see a very small business in the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed where a café has gone into online trade and is now delivering food hampers across the world. This is an area which is delivering growth and jobs across Europe and there could not be anything more important at the present time, given the need that we have for those jobs, so I hope that we can move as quickly as possible to the completion of the digital single market."@en1
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