“We would be happy if the request for Brexit could happen as quickly as possible so that we could take the specific steps which need to happen”, he said.
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The President believes that this investment in new network and services will create “at least 1.3 million new jobs over the next decade”. Usherwood said European Union leaders are likely to take a tough line “to avoid a contagion effect” in which other European Union nations ask for special deals with the bloc.
A new grant, with a total budget of €120 million, will allow public authorities to purchase state-of-the art equipment, for example a local wireless access point.
Meanwhile, Mr Juncker suggested that Britain can not be a member of the European single market and regain full control over immigration from the continent.
CISAC Director General Gadi Oron commented: “Europe is waking up to the global community of creators calling for urgent action to secure a fairer digital market”. “So we may get to see the Eurocorps HQ in Strasbourg revamped… and perhaps more flagship projects”.
“To achieve that, spectrum policies must be better coordinated across the EU”.
If Juncker’s proposals are enacted, “it truly will be a quantum leap in European Union defense cooperation”, Terlikowski said.
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 previous year, Britain’s vote in June to leave the bloc and a sluggish economic recovery. The initiative is aimed at connecting areas that don’t already have Wifi access.
Vodafone and the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA) were both quick off the mark in responding to Juncker’s speech.
Last year, Juncker drew up an obligatory scheme for member states to share 160,000 refugees in Greece and Italy and any other overwhelmed country among their European Union partners.
“Europe needs to toughen up”.
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The European Union’s chief executive has called for a joint military headquarters and greater defence cooperation between nations as he outlined plans to combat the costly loss of Britain from the European Union.
