DIGITAL ECONOMY: NEW COALITION TARGETS.

• Position: Brief article

The European Commission urges businesses in the digital sector to join the EU's Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs with the target of filling the 900,000 job vacancies that are expected to open by 2020. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 24 January, Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Vice-President Neelie Kroes called on digital businesses, governments and training and education sectors in Europe to sign the 'Davos declaration' with the overall undertaking to: 1. create an additional 100,000 traineeships by 2015; 2...