Act soon or risk making us a joke: this was the gist of the message addressed by the Commissioner for the digital economy and society, Günther Oettinger, to the participants in the Culture Council, on 19 May, as he presented the European Commission’s digital single market (DSM) strategy.
Blaming slow procedures in Council for potential delays, he said that “Change is so rapid that we could make ourselves a laughing stock if we come up with something in 2017”.
The…