Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-11-20-Speech-2-394-000"
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"en.20121120.28.2-394-000"2
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"Technology can be hugely disruptive but also offers new opportunities. Just as the audiovisual and media market has been disrupted by digital technology we now see new ways of banking and payments. Who would have thought that Africa would become the leading continent in the nascent mobile payments market? When I was in Uganda a few years ago, my taxi driver explained that mobile phone companies in Africa will lift more people out of poverty than our patronising large white western NGOs. We need to make sure that digital payments market thrives here in the EU. I welcome the Commission identifying several barriers which prevent the European payment market from working as efficiently and openly as possible. We all realise the benefits of promoting and increasing the card, internet and mobile payments to offer consumers and businesses an opportunity to have access to more convenient, secure, fast, variable, flexible and cost-effective payment methods. I often wish that instead of focusing on building a European Project that the EU would focus more on creating a true single market and creating and allowing technology companies across the EU to flourish to build a truly digital and innovative single market."@en1
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