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Neelie Kroes

Type: Person

Name: Neelie Kroes

Title: European Commissioner . Digital Agenda. Vice-President of the Commission (27 NOV 09)

Organization: European Commission

Date of Birth: 1941-07-19

Place of Birth: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Nationality: Netherlands

Fact Sheet: Biography for Neelie Kroes

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 3 reports

European Commission

Neelie Kroes, VP of the European Commission, speaking at the launch of the Digital Masterplan

in Dublin on June 19 ... [Published Silicon Republic - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Neelie Kroes, European Commission, Dublin

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

European Digital Agenda Assembly opens in Dublin to plot EUs digital strategy

Speakers and delegates will include policy-makers, regulators, NGOs and internet users from all over Europe.A range of stakeholders from Europe’s digital society will be in Dublin for the event, including EU Commission vice-president Neelie Kroes and ... [Published Silicon Republic - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Digital Agenda AS, Pat Rabbitte, Dublin

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 2 reports

Digital Dublin Masterplan launched

A new plan to prepare Dublin for the digital future will see fibre powered broadband available to every house in the city by Easter 2016. The Digital Dublin Masterplan also proposes the setting up of a specialist team within the city council which will ... [Published Big News Network - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Dublin, Broadband, The Digital Group, Neelie Kroes

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Neelie Kroes

EU's digital chief calls for faster action on single market

The European Union's digital chief, Neelie Kroes, called this week called for the EU to step up its pace on the creation of a single market for telecoms. ... [Published Fierce Wireless - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Neelie Kroes, European Union, Telecommunication

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Computer knowledge lacking in about half of EU citizens

Home breakingnews Brussels - Half of all EU citizens have little or absolutely no computer skills, according to a recent annual report from the EU Commission on internet development within the European Union. Indeed, levels of familiarity with technology ... [Published The Nation - Thailand - 18 hours ago]

Entities: European Union, Digital Agenda AS, Neelie Kroes, High-Speed Internet

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

Setting the Agenda: The 3rd Digital Assembly ...

The 3rd Digital Agenda Assembly (DAA) takes place in Dublin Castle on Wednesday and Thursday of this week (19-20 June 2013). The Assembly provides an annual opportunity to take stock of progress towards implementation of the Digital Agenda for Europe ... [Published IIEA - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Digital Agenda AS, Dublin, Invention, Neelie Kroes

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

European Union

Single regulatory authorisation should give telecoms firms right to operate across whole of EU, says Kroes

Telecoms companies that obtain regulatory authorisation to operate in one EU member state will be able to operate across the whole trading bloc under a new EU telecoms framework, an EU Commissioner has said.18 Jun 2013Neelie Kroes, the EU Commissioner ... [Published Out-Law.com - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Neelie Kroes, Telecommunication, European Union

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 2 reports

Interview: Commissioner Neelie Kroes on driving Europe’s Digital Agenda

As Europe’s digital leaders gather in Dublin this week for the final, and largest, event of the Irish Presidency of the EU, the Digital Agenda Assembly, Ann O’Dea speaks to Neelie Kroes, vice-president of the European Commission, responsible for Europe’s ... [Published Silicon Republic - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Neelie Kroes, Digital Agenda AS, Broadband, Telecommunication

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

'Kroes calls for telecoms passport to support single market'

Neelie Kroes, European commissioner for the Digita Agenda, has proposed creating a "passport" for telecom operators that would allow them to operate across the EU after receiving regulatory clearance in just one country. Similar to EU systems in place ... [Published Individual.com - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Neelie Kroes, Telecommunication, European Union, European Commissioner, European Parliament

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 2 reports

Kroes: unify the mobile market or Europe will fall farther behind

Neelie Kroes, the European Commission member responsible for digital agenda, speaks in 2012.(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) Neelie Kroes, the European Commission vice president in charge of the digital agenda, sketched out several steps toward the unified ... [Published CNET News - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Neelie Kroes, Telecommunication, Stephen Shankland, European Commission

First reported Jun 16 2013 - Updated Jun 16 2013 - 3 reports

Brussels to push for telecoms alliances

Neelie Kroes, EU commissioner, seeks to reassure sector that the plans form the foundation for struggling companies to start growing again ... [Published FT.com - Companies - Jun 16 2013]

Entities: Brussels, Telecommunication, Neelie Kroes

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 8 reports

EU to scrap mobile roaming charges in favour of a single market

The European Commission voted on Tuesday in Brussels to end roaming fees for calls, texts and internet in favour of a single telecoms market across the continent. Concrete details will be agreed upon and published within the next six weeks and the proposals ... [Published Big News Network - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: European Union, Digital Agenda AS, Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner

Quotes

"the circumstances in which such settings can be considered appropriate for expressing the user's consent depends on how well they meet the general requirements in the legislation" said European Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes

European countries ignoring privacy directive, says Commission spokesman [Published CIO - 15 hours ago]

"Current trends are not sustainable," Kroes said in a speech in Brussels on Monday. "operators cannot reach economies of scale, and face barriers at every turn. they can't think european and compete globally. they can't invest in the broadband we need. our citizens cannot enjoy innovative new services. and companies doing business in different member states don't have the networks to match: because arranging seamless communication services is costly and difficult. and that's a serious barrier to growth."

Single regulatory authorisation should give telecoms firms right to operate across whole of EU, s ... [Published Out-Law.com - Jun 18 2013]

...in Europe can hold up acquisitions, but Kroes said on Twitter that she and Joaquin Almunia, the European commissioner responsible for competition, "are on [the] same page and in good cooperation" concerning the single-market issue

Kroes: unify the mobile market or Europe will fall farther behind [Published CNET News - Jun 17 2013]

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Interview: Commissioner Neelie Kroes on the Dig... [Published Silicon Republic - 3 hours ago]
Interview: Commissioner Neelie Kroes on the Dig... [Published Silicon Republic - 5 hours ago]
Digital Dublin Masterplan launched [Published Big News Network - 8 hours ago]
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Digital Dublin Masterplan launched [Published RTE Online - 10 hours ago]
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Kroes proposes telecoms passport to reinforce s... [Published Big News Network - Jun 17 2013]
European Mobile Market Isn't Globally Competiti... [Published Mobile Marketing Magazine - Jun 17 2013]
Kroes wants to abolish roaming charges but not ... [Published Telecoms.com - Jun 17 2013]
EU to ban all phone roaming rates [Published Ireland Business World - Jun 17 2013]
Fragmented Telecoms Market will Hold Back 4G an... [Published News from LT-Innovate - Jun 17 2013]
Europe pushes to end mobile roaming charges wit... [Published V3.co.uk - Jun 17 2013]
European trust in US compromised, says EU data ... [Published PC World: Techlog - Jun 17 2013]
A fragmented telecoms market will hold back 4G ... [Published The Next Web - Jun 17 2013]
Europe in danger of being sidelined without tel... [Published Digital TV Europe - Jun 17 2013]

Blogs

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Fragmented Telecoms Market will Hold Back 4G an... [Published News from LT-Innovate - Jun 17 2013] Vice President of the European Commission and Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes: Keeping pace with broadband and 4G LTE developments will be a near impossibility if Europe maintains a system of fragmented telecoms markets and providers, according ...
European trust in US compromised, says EU data ... [Published PC World: Techlog - Jun 17 2013] Europe's top privacy watchdog and the digital agenda commissioner both said Monday that more transparency and trust is needed between the European Union and the U.S. following reports of widespread data collection by the U.S. National Security Agency.Cybersecurity ...
A fragmented telecoms market will hold back 4G ... [Published The Next Web - Jun 17 2013] Keeping pace with broadband and 4G LTE developments will be a near impossibility if Europe maintains a system of fragmented telecoms markets and providers, according to the Vice President of the European Commission and Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie ...
Kroes: unify the mobile market or Europe will f... [Published CNET News.com - Jun 17 2013] Urging compromises so that today's 27 separate mobile-network markets can be replaced in effect by just one, the European Commission's Neelie Kroes lays out several ideas for reform. [Read more] ...
A fragmented telecoms market will hold back 4G ... [Published The Next Web - Jun 17 2013] Keeping pace with broadband and 4G LTE developments will be a near impossibility if Europe maintains a system of fragmented telecoms markets and providers, according to the Vice President of the European Commission and Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie ...

Audio/Video

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Single Telecoms Market Hoped for May 2014 [Published WSJ.com Video - Digits - May 27 2013]
EU Telecom Chief Promises Major Shake-Up [Published WSJ.com Video - Digits - Feb 27 2013]

Press Releases

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Νέος κανονισμός για τον οργανισμό για την Ασφάλ... [Published CisionWire - English - Jun 18 2013]
Europees AMBER Alert van start [Published PR Newswire: Business Technology - Mar 21 2013]
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