Digital Market and Andrus Ansip

Andrus Ansip: Any questions on the #Digital Single Market Strategy Our FAQs provide answers: http://t.co/yr6TqhDGRP European Commission May 6, 2015Andrus Ansip, EU Vice-President for Digital Market said there was a huge untapped market for services delivered digitally, according to Euro News. There are 100 million European citizens sitting at home, who would like to get access to digital content – to movies, music and e-books from other EU countries – but they can’t because of geo-blocking, he said.A single digital market could revolutionalise the way we shop, said officials. Brussels pledged to tackle the issue as part of plans for a single digital market announced on Wednesday. At present, around one in seven Europeans buy from websites in other EU countries. The plans will also see copyright laws modernised and harmonised, although specifics won’t be announced until a later date. Just four percent of online services are sold cross-border, the rest are sold nationally or bought from the US.EU officials predict that a fully functional single digital market would contribute more than 400 billion euros to the economy. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.