Europe’s information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding is moving on from the portfolio after five years, instead shifting to run justice, fundamental rights and freedoms.
— The Luxembourger has steered initiatives like mobile TV standards, continent-wide digital heritage archives, A/V regulatory reform, cross-border online content licensing and capping of mobile rates.
— But Reding will be replaced by a commissioner with whom she has worked closely. Competition commissioner Neelie Kroes becomes the newly-titled “digital agenda” commissioner.
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