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A transatlantic trade deal will generate jobs and boost Europe’s feeble economic growth. It’s an opportunity we can’t afford to miss

October 13, 2014

By John Higgins, Director General of DIGITALEUROPE If the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) was all about dumbing down our consumer protection standards to allow big American corporations to charge in and flog us more of their wares, then I’d be with the protesters who came out to oppose the trade agreement at the… » read more

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Creating digital jobs easier than putting humans on the moon

April 23, 2013

I’ve always been interested in space. Mysteries of the universe, space travel, black holes and all that. So it was a real pleasure to hear an 83-year-old Buzz Aldrin speak at a dinner in Brussels recently, and to discover that my dinner table neighbour worked for NASA. It got me comparing the challenges of getting… » read more

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Education, Grand Coalition, InfoSociety, Innovation and Growth

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Creativity exposed or shielded? Striking the right balance for copyright in the digital age

December 7, 2012

Europe has been fertile ground for creative minds for centuries. Over the past two decades, the digital economy has taken this to a new level. The European Commission’s orientation debate on copyright, the lifeblood of creativity, therefore comes at just the right time. Those with the highest stakes in copyright have made their voice heard,… » read more

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EU Priorities and Opinion, InfoSociety, Innovation and Growth

Tectonic shift: why the “new wave” of digital culture is no ripple

November 7, 2012

When a technology proves disruptive and ubiquitous enough to power networks that attract 2.2 billion users – one third of the world’s population – daily, is it reasonable to pretend that nothing is happening and to support status quo? A variety of regulatory props have been designed to nurture creativity over the last five centuries.… » read more

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Competition, English, EU Priorities and Opinion, InfoSociety, Innovation and Growth, Public Affairs, Trade & Industry

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Opening doors or creating barriers to trade?

October 17, 2012

DIGITALEUROPE’s vision is of a Europe that nurtures and supports digital technology industries, and prospers from the jobs we provide, the innovation and economic benefits we deliver and the societal challenges we address. So we are pleased to read, in the renewed EU Industrial Policy published on 10 October, with the telling subtitle “A Stronger… » read more

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Economy & Euro, EU Priorities and Opinion, InfoSociety, Innovation and Growth, Public Affairs, Trade & Industry

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Weather forecast in Brussels: when the emergence of the cloud spells welcome change

October 4, 2012

The last couple of weeks have been improbably eventful and positive in Brussels on an issue notorious for moving slowly, if at all. 1. The Cloud strategy released on 27 September under the propitious title “Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe” combines a visionary layout of a successful migration to the cloud with… » read more

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Innovation and Growth

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Of Mice and Men

September 17, 2012

John Steinbeck reportedly borrowed this title from a verse authored by Robert Burns: « The best laid schemes o’mice an’ men often go awry ». Arguably, times of crisis hold out as many opportunities as risks: in order to be fleet-footed enough to catch the former and ensure that they prevail over the latter, we… » read more

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EU Priorities and Opinion, InfoSociety, Innovation and Growth, Science & Research, Uncategorized

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The forgotten trade angle: cyber security

June 26, 2012

Cyber security has become an imperative. Governments around the world are preoccupied by the possibility of targeted cyber-attacks and they rightly take initiatives to protect their citizens. To illustrate: security was selected as one of the priority topics for the European Commission’s Digital Agenda Assembly 2012 last week in Brussels, and many other events have… » read more

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InfoSociety, Innovation and Growth, Security, Trade & Industry

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A ray of hope?

June 5, 2012

Media seem to go by the unwritten dogma that only difference in opinion, not consensus, is worth the headlines. Regardless, agreeing common principles has always been a prerequisite to joint action or effective progress in the real world. This at least holds true for the European Union, this innovative construct of national governments whose collective… » read more

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Economy & Euro, Education, English, EU Priorities and Opinion, InfoSociety, Innovation and Growth

EUhackathon 2012: Bridging the gap between government and technology

April 19, 2012

The stereotype of a hacker is some dodgy looking, long haired, uncouth youth who creates and cracks codes in order to exploit a company or organisation. Nothing could in fact be further from the truth says Caroline De Cock, organiser of the EUhackathon, who is actively working to change the perception of a “hacker” into… » read more

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Education, InfoSociety, Innovation and Growth

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DIGITALEUROPE

DIGITALEUROPE is dedicated to improving the business environment for the European digital technology industry, and to promoting the digital technology industry's contribution to economic growth and social progress in the European Union. Click here for

DIGITALEUROPE (www.digitaleurope.org), is the voice of the European digital technology industry. Our membership includes large and small companies in the Information and Communications Technology and Consumer Electronics Industry sectors. DIGITALEUROPE membership is composed of 61 major multinational companies and 41 national associations from 29 European countries. In all, DIGITALEUROPE represents more than 10,000 companies all over Europe with more than 2 million employees and over EUR 1 Trillion in revenues.


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