The EU and the digital economy [What Think Tanks are thinking]

The European Union is presented with many opportunities and challenges from the rapid development of the digital economy, with its fast growth of data flows, domination of U.S. firms, concern of privacy and new business models in many sectors.

The creation of the Digital Single Market is a central policy plank for the European Commission, which wants to use it to foster innovation and economic growth. It wants to improve access to digital goods and services and create the conditions for digital networks and services to prosper. The European Parliament adopted its resolution on the Digital Single Market on 19 January 2016. The EU’s immediate task is concluding a new data transfer agreement with the United States. Other challenges include upgrading the copyright law, deciding on net neutrality and addressing competition concerns.

This note offers links to recent studies and reports from major international think tanks and research institutes on the digital economy.

More papers on the subject can be found in a previous edition of ‘What think tanks are thinking’ devoted to the Single Digital Market.

Written by Marcin Grajewski.

• Primary Source

EP: EPRS: What Think Tanks are Thinking, 07.05.15: Digital single market in Europe http://epthinktank.eu/2015/05/07/digital-single-market-in-europe-what-think-tanks-are-thinking/

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