EU Policies to boost productivity using ICT: Speech by EU Commissioner
Liikanen said that the EU is starting to see the ICT sector with improving prospects, with new products and services such as broadband driving demand from firms, households and government. The first signs of recovery in the European economy are in sight he says, with business and consumer confidence is rising, and economic growth expected to pick up the second half of 2003 and to gather pace through 2004.
