Baltic states should create a regional digital market serving as an example to the European Union in establishing a digital single market, Siim Kallas, a former prime minister of Estonia and vice president of the European Commission, said at a conference on Monday.
"In most European countries digital services, not to mention cross-border e-services, are considerably less developed than in the Baltic states. I think the Baltic states could stride even more boldly and vigorously forward in developing cross-border digital services. We have to create a Baltic regional digital market to be an example to the whole European Union," Kallas said at a competitiveness forum in Jurmala, Latvia.
Kallas said the governments of the Baltic countries should agree on a common goal, a common project to achieve bigger unity and raise the profile of their countries. "It is necessary to create a common digital market of the Baltic states," he said.
"The task of the governments is to set up a framework and find a coordinator for this project. The coordinator has to be a well known and respected person who has good contacts with all the three countries and whose job would be to facilitate public-private partnership in creating and developing the common digital market and make the cooperation more effective," he said.
Jurmala in Latvia is hosting a competitiveness forum of the Baltic Sea region under the title of „Achieving e-quality by connecting region“.
The forum’s speakers include former European Commission’s vice president Siim Kallas, Latvian PM Laimdota Straujuma and Lithuanian PM Algirdas Butkevičius.
In his speech, Siim Kallas said that Baltic countries should appoint a joint coordinator that would be responsible for developing a joint digital market in the Baltic states, and coordinate cooperation of Baltic countries and raise awareness about Baltic states.
The forum is held for the sixth year and is being moderated by Dr Anna-Maija Mertens and Dr Daunis Auers.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Toomas Hõbemägi
Quelle/Source: Baltic Business News, 16.06.2015
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