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Conflicting viewpoints and a fast timetable are putting pressure on Europe's high-stakes efforts to define its cloud strategy.

Conflicting viewpoints and a fast timetable are putting pressure on Europe's high-stakes efforts to define its cloud strategy.
I'm incredibly sceptical about the efforts from the European Commission to create a 'European Cloud', fearing as I do that the ongoing PRISM scandal is being exploited to support a political agenda in Europe. Here's the latest document from the Commission which makes me rather annoyed.
The war of words around the PRISM scandal and its impact on the cloud taken on positively Dr Strangelove levels as a new EU report calls for commercial pressure to force a change in US law. That's going to work, isn't it?
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Apps in the 28 European Union states generated €10.2 billion last year - a figure that is expected to increase to a whopping €14.9 billion in 2016. Will the EU now create the right conditions to build on this solid foundation?
Self-congratulation, warmed-up policy commitments and the re-inforcement of a mis-judged moral crusade to score 'tough' headlines - the latest government report on Digital Britain.