“More defence in Europe doesn’t mean less transatlantic solidarity”, he continued before going on to outline the need for a European Defense Fund, which would stimulate military research and development.
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“The Google News service relies wholly on reproducing information gathered, processed and published initially by news organisations, and by Facebook which sees itself as the world’s information platform but is also based on information originated by others”, the Irish Times said.
Juncker’s speech comes two days before a meeting of 27 European Union heads of state – British prime minister Theresa May excluded – in Bratislava on Friday.
European Union leaders will meet in Slovakia’s capital Bratislava to grapple with the issue tomorrow – without Mrs May. According to the European Union leadership, the lack of a “permanent structure” resulted in money being wasted on missions. Juncker also said that the EC would hope to have at least one city in each European Union country to have deployed a 5G mobile network by the same time.
In his letter to European Union leaders ahead of the meeting, he said it would be a “fatal error to assume that the negative result in the United Kingdom referendum represents a specifically British issue”. “Of course, with the member states contributing, we can go even faster”, Juncker told members of parliament. In Europe, given its great richness of talent, European institutions bear the responsibility in protecting its creative community and securing a better future for new generations of creators’.
Juncker meanwhile proposed doubling the size of his signature investment plan to 630 billion euros ($708 billion), and announced measures to help young people hit by the eurozone debt crisis.
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The Commission’s latest proposal will hurt not just Google but also European startups trying to build a business on news aggregation, Google’s vice president for global policy, Caroline Atkinson, wrote on the company’s European public policy blog. An “ala carte access to the single market” isn’t possible once Brexit takes effect.
