At the very same moment when German chancellor Angela Merkel said the EU was in crisis, President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, promises everyone in the EU free internet.
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Less than three months after Britain narrowly opted to (Br) exit the European Union, it has been announced that all member states will enjoy free Wi-Fi, abolished data roaming fees and 5G internet connectivity.
Over the last decade the European Union engaged in more than 30 civilian and military European Union missions from Africa to Afghanistan, he added. Mr Juncker’s retreat from a plan to force EU members to accept quotas of refugees was a tacit admission that Brussels has pushed to breaking point the patience of eastern European states such as Poland.
That remark contrasted with Mr Juncker’s insistence on Wednesday that “too often, national interests are brought to the fore” in Europe.
Jean-Claude Juncker said the Brexit vote showed “something was wrong in Britain”, as well as with the European project.
Delivering an annual speech commonly used to set out European Union priorities, Jean-Claude Juncker sought to rally support for the battered European Union project in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave. “The lack of cooperation is something that is costing Europe 20 to 100 billion euros a year”, he said. We need to be connected.
EU leaders and officials in Brussels are focusing more on jobs, migration and security to rebuild popular trust in European integration, weakened by an uncontrolled arrival of more than a million refugees and migrants past year, Britain’s vote in June to leave the bloc and a sluggish economic recovery. “It would hurt anyone who writes, reads or shares the news-including the many European startups working with the news sector to build sustainable business models online”, Atkinson said.
Jean-Claude Juncker said the current European Union representative for foreign affairs and security policy, Federica Mogherini, was “doing a remarkable job” but should have more influence in worldwide negotiations.
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One major change would force internet portals such as Google or Reddit to pay newspaper publishers a licence fee when using small extracts or snippets of news content-most notably on Google News or Huffington Post.
