[EurActiv.com] 2020 plan pins hopes on ‘Digital Agenda’

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High-speed Internet, lower prices and unlocking the potential of unused spectrum waves for new services all feature in the EU’s new strategy for growth and jobs, dubbed ‘Europe 2020’, according to a leaked document seen by EurActiv. […]

An NGO for a commercially neutral internet, La Quadrature du Net, warned Kroes not to use high-speed Internet as a « justification for abandoning net neutrality, which is an essential engine for growth and competition in the digital environment, » according to a statement from the group’s founder, Jérémie Zimmermann.

http://www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/digital-agenda-put-eu-back-gear-news-286500