back to article Gaffe-prone EU digi chief: We still want our single digital market

Following another gaffe-heavy week last week when he compared net neutrality activists to the Taliban, Europe’s digi-commish Günther H. Oettinger was back on firmer ground today at CeBIT. The EU Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society gave a keynote speech at the international conference, which describes itself as “ …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Why do I get the impression that Germany wants to run everything in Europe?

    1. Dan 55 Silver badge
      Joke

      Because the German is the best way. Why would any other nation complain about that?

      (If you do have any complaints you may submit them, in German only, to one of H-dot's Twitter Q&A sessions.)

    2. big_D Silver badge

      They don't, they can't even decide internally on a lot of matters.

      The agriculture minister wants to pass the buck on the GM crops to the states, the argi ministers of the states are all saying they want a country wide ban on GM crops - they are worried that if one state goes GM, then it means a large buffer zone around the state, where nothing can be grown, in case it gets contaminated with GMed seeds or pollen.

      The agriculture minister says he doesn't have the right to do that, the states' agri ministers and the Envionment Minister say he has...

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