The Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age is an Executive Vice President of the

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responsible for media and information issues such as

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and IT. The current officeholder is Margrethe Vestager since December 2019. The portfolio was previously ''Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society'' (previously ''for Digital Agenda'').

Mariya Gabriel Mariya Ivanova Gabriel ( bg, Мария Иванова Габриел) (''née'' Nedelcheva, bg, Неделчева) (born 20 May 1979) is a Bulgarian politician and a member of the GERB party serving as European Commissioner for Innovation, ...

served as Digital Economy and Society Commissioner from 2017 to 2019.

Viviane Reding

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(2004-2010) found a relatively popular policy in seeking to lower

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charges of mobile phones when travelling within the

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, stating: "For years, mobile roaming charges have remained unjustifiably high. We are therefore tackling one of the last borders within Europe's internal market". Her legislation to cap roaming charges was approved by the

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in April 2007. Reding's successor Neelie Kroes greatly extended the range of the roaming regulation, to include data charges amongst others. On 7 April 2006 the commission launched the new "

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for websites for EU companies and citizens wishing to have a non-national European internet address. This has proved popular with 2.5M being registered by April 2007. It is now the seventh most popular TLD worldwide, and third in Europe (after

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and

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) Reding has also proposed that major European telecom companies be forced to separate their network and service operations to promote competition in the market. The companies, including

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and

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, would still own their networks but the separate management structure would be obliged to treat other operators on an equal basis in offering access to the network. This is opposed to separate ideas to force a full breakup of such companies.EU Commissioner favours telecoms break-up
Financial Times

List of commissioners

In the previous Commission information society was linked with Enterprise (now linked with Industry).

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Neelie Kroes

Directorate General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology

Digital Agenda for Europe

Press release, 1. 11. 2014 {{DEFAULTSORT:European Commissioner For Digital Agenda Information technology organizations based in Europe Digital Agenda

Viviane Reding

List of commissioners

See also

References

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