The European Commission is gearing up to solve some longstanding problems with outdated copyright and data protection laws and move ahead on new rules for roaming charges and net neutrality.

During the past week, the Commission made public its work agenda for 2015, and high on the list is the ongoing effort to break down national barriers to create what it calls a digital single market.

While there are many policy issues involved in building such a market, the Commission will focus on areas where it can make “a real and tangible difference to people’s lives” by acting on a European, rather than a national, basis, said Andrus Ansip, Commission vice president responsible for the digital single market, in a blog post.

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