The new Juncker commission : the digital agenda

Abstract

In assessing the challenges facing Andrus Ansip, as Vice-President-designate for the Digital Single Market, and Günther Oettinger, as Commissioner-designate for Digital Economy and Society, this contribution finds that leadership and building real consensus among the member states will be the main keys to achieving what is, in their view, the most ambitious and important of the new Commission’s objectives. And, as it notes further, their challenge is even greater, if one considers that, if successful, the Digital Agenda will have to be the last one. Five years from now, the 'digital agenda' will have become, simply, the agenda.