The Wall Street Journal reports on Europe’s plan to compete with the U.S. and Asia in the Digital Age. European manufacturers and legislators “hope that by a combination of investment into connected devices and tough data protection and competition rules that curb the U.S. tech firms, Europe’s economy will have a fighting chance against rivals from other regions,” the report states. “As we successfully did in aerospace and automotive technologies, the EU will be a digital world player,” said EU Commissioner for the Digital Single Market Gunther Oettinger. And in an op-ed for EUObserver, representatives from the V4 countries—the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia—write it’s time to end the EU’s invisible digital borders that block the free flow of information. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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