EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TELECOMS CHIEF SAYS SECTOR NEEDS EFFECTIVE CROSS-BORDER 500 MILLION MARKET OF CONSUMERS TO THRIVE
July 1st, 2013
THE EUROPEAN Parliament is powerful these days – far from the talking shop of its first direct elections in 1979. Today the European Parliament’s (EP) consent is required to authorise most European Union (EU) laws, and as telecoms observers know, these comprehensively impact European electronic communications. As a result, Italian member of the parliament (MEP) Amalia Sartori, 66, is influential. She is chair of the European Parliament’s committee on industry, research and energy, which has responsibility for telecommunications policy at the EP, tabling ...
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