ECIPE Seminar: Europe’s Digital Future – Renewing Efforts to Create the Digital Single Market

What should be the next steps for Europe’s Digital Single Market? The digital economy already powers growth in Europe’s economy, and – with new innovation and data services – harbours a potential to unleash economic renewal across the continent. Big differences in digital readiness remain between member states and sometimes lead governments in different policy directions. Digital frontrunners have great aspirations for Europe’s digital future and is impatient about the slow pace of reforms. Others are torn between the desire to speed up digital change in their economy and the realities of industrial economic structures, with incumbents and other interests lobbying against fast digitization. Creating a Digital Single Market will have to be an ambition also for the next five years – and for the next Commission. What are the key reforms the Europe need to pursue – and how do we build a broader coalition for digital change?