Neelie Kroes

“Laying out her plans, Ms Kroes said that the EU invested 40% less in technology than the US.”

“In order to catch up, EU governments must double their annual spending on research and development to 11bn euros (£9.4bn) by 2020, she said.”

“Ms Kroes said that the EU invested 40% less in technology than the US.”

“It meant that nearly a third of Europeans had never used the internet and only 1% had access to fibre-based high-speed networks.”