If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010.

The cost of using your mobile phone abroad is hard to believe.

It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border.

The European Commission will help to turn this into reality by co-funding centers of competence for digitization and providing a truly European framework for protecting, accessing and using intellectual property rights in digital libraries. Member states will have to do their bit by providing the basic means for digitization.

Its stated policy,

We should not create a precedent when NATO acts outside the territories of its member-states without a relevant decision by the U.N. Security Council,