TELECOMS PACKAGE : COR'S RAPPORTEUR AN 'ADVOCATE FOR BROADCASTERS'.

Keep roaming and throw out the rest of the telecoms package: thus concludes the rapporteur for the EU Committee of the Regions, Frank Zimmermann (S&D, Germany), in his opinion on the single market for electronic communications.

For the CoR rapporteur, roaming charges should be abolished in July 2014, as proposed by the European Commission. This is a more radical position than that adopted by the European Parliament's rapporteur, who recommends 2016. On the other hand, Zimmermann states...