Viviane Reding
Viviane Reding
Viviane Redingis a Luxembourg politician, currently serving as a Member of the European Parliament. Before starting a professional career as a journalist for the leading newspaper in Luxembourg, the Luxemburger Wort, she obtained a doctorate in human sciences at the Sorbonne. From 1986 to 1998, she was President of the Luxembourg Union of Journalists. On 27 November 2009, she was elevated in the "Barroso II Commission" to Vice-President responsible for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship. She is affiliated with the...
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basic bit means member providing states
Member states will have to do their bit by providing the basic means for digitization.
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The ability to locate emergency callers can save lives, and I urge the member states to lose no more time in making the necessary changes, so that these proceedings and all other pending cases can be closed.
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The European Commission will help to turn this into reality by co-funding centers of competence for digitization and providing a truly European framework for protecting, accessing and using intellectual property rights in digital libraries. Member states will have to do their bit by providing the basic means for digitization.
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If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010.
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The cost of using your mobile phone abroad is hard to believe.
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I want to accelerate the take-up of digital television in Europe. It is good news that interoperability is no longer a major obstacle for interactive TV, thanks to the growing number of technical solutions supporting it.
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At this speed, .eu will become a real competitor to .com.
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Europe must create a commercial environment that encourages more rapid innovation and take up of research results. The public sector has massive buying power, but it needs the right incentives to share the risks as well as the benefits of investing in new technologies and services.
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European films succeed not only on their own national cinema markets, but also and increasingly in other European countries and other continents.
ask companies consumers lower offer prices
We want consumers to ask for lower prices and the companies to offer them.
laws present
At present I see very different interpretation of laws in different countries.
clear lack placement product
Product placement is a reality, but we lack clear rules,
agreement interests solution sure
I am sure we will find a solution in interests of the internet, ... We think we could have an agreement on what's on the table.
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RFID is very important to businesses and it is very important to citizens, but it also raises concerns about trust. If we don't remove the trust problem, well then the business won't fly.