Oettinger’s sharp retort to Ansip on geo-blocking

The European Commission's vice-president for the digital economy, Andrus Ansip, told the press, on 25 March, that "I detest geo-blocking". "Well, I hate my alarm when it rings at five in the morning," retorted Commissioner Günther Oettinger in an interview with the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 30 March. Oettinger believes that a European digital single market is necessary, but "we must not throw the baby out with the bathwater". Before terminating territorial blocking of internet content, which…