Explosive growth of Internet use in Europe

Since its launch in December 1999, the European Commission's eEurope initiative has had a broad impact both in the Member States at a European level and beyond. This is the main conclusion of a Communication to the Council of ministers and the European Parliament on progress towards the eEurope 2002 goal adopted today by the Commission, ahead of the European Council in Nice on December 7-8.

In parallel the Commission has released encouraging results of its latest survey of Internet use, showing a 55% growth in Internet penetration in the last six months. These indicate that Internet penetration in EU households has risen from 18% in March to 28% in in October.

Source: press release of the European Commission (Brussels, 30 November 2000)

Datum: 30/11/2000

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