Press Release: eEurope initiative: Explosive growth of Internet use in Europe

Since its launch in December 1999, the European Commission's eEurope initiative has had a broad impact both in the Member States at a European level and beyond. This is the main conclusion of a Communication to the Council and the Parliament on progress towards the eEurope 2002 goal adopted on 30.11.00 by the Commission, ahead of the European Council in Nice on 7-8.12.00. In parallel the Commission released encouraging results of its latest survey of Internet use, showing a 55% growth in Internet penetration in the previous six months. These indicated that Internet penetration in EU households had risen from 18% in March 2000 to 28% in October of the same year.

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