IP summit 06: Reding wants Interoperability

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:20:01 +0000

Heise report (German): Reding is all for Interoperability but wants the market to find solutions. It is strange that she wants to abstain regulation where indeed the government has a regulatory mandate. From an ordoliberal perspective market order is one of the fields where governments should intervene. So we get the worst of both worlds: Intervention where no market order is at stake, but where governments may play a useful role for safeguarding functioning competition, market order is left to the market.