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"Mr President, I would like to thank Commissioner Barnier for his résumé of the work on the digital single market through the last legislature, which of course we all found very interesting. We all know that the EU is not yet a properly functioning single market; it is still divided by national borders; it is still not properly functioning. It is still not attractive to digital start-up companies because it cannot offer seamless access to the market.
We have heard much about the achievements but, and I congratulate the Commissioner for being so straightforward, we have also heard that there is a clear acknowledgement that we have failed to achieve some of our targets and that we will continue to set ourselves those targets and aims for the future.
I would like to draw colleagues’ attention to the joint paper on priorities put together by 11 Member States, including the UK and Germany, because I think that to some extent it does the job of setting out how we should go forward. There is a clear list of priorities for realising a vision for completing this single market.
I would like to focus my remarks on simply one of these areas. As with all of our work here in the European Parliament, we talk about regulation and legislation and there are always two dimensions. There is the technical work that we do, there are the impact assessments – there is all of that – and then there are the tangible benefits to consumers: the things that our constituents really want to hear about.
So I make no apology for mentioning yet again the issue of ensuring the right digital infrastructure. Connecting every citizen is still a work in progress, both in terms of broadband speeds and mobile connectivity, particularly data services. In my own region of five million people, one quarter still do not have access to either of these benefits and when I talk to my citizens, to my constituents, and I talk about all of the good work that we are doing here, I am often met with cynical laughter from part of the room because they do not have that basic connectivity to begin with.
So let us forge ahead on all of the fronts that people have talked about, I support them all. But also let us make sure that we speed up the basic building blocks that the digital economy is built on and not leave that basic infrastructure behind."@en1
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