Nissan moves against its legendary chairman officially ousting carlos ghosn after his arrest on financial misconduct charges but the french have yet to act on the star executive who also the u. S. Will know. And the European Union may be a Single Market but its not an even Playing Field for fostering high tech business we look at whether the e. U. Can really create a digital Single Market. Im Stephen Beers in berlin thanks for joining us the board of nissan has voted to fire chairman carlos coned he remains in jail on suspicion of falsifying Financial Reports on japanese car the japanese carmakers french partner renault is meanwhile keeping going on as Chief Executive at least temporarily naming an interim c. E. O. Just yesterday a major rift is threatening to open between the two companies endangering their profitable lions the french and japanese economy ministers even met today over the
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speculating a merger was on the cards or begin to kind of go their own separate ways and that would raise rather large questions for the actual future strategy of each three of these companies so plenty more to watch in the weeks ahead under a spicer in london many thanks thank you. think of high tech startups and you might think of silicon alley in the u.s. or china where the tech scene is flush with cash but you re also both success stories like spotify or skype the market there is fragmented however and member states vary in terms of digital investment so can the e.u. create a single digital market computer programming begins at a very early age in a stone in the small baltic states is regarded as a pioneer of digitalisation it s where skype was founded and became a global player digital conditions differ widely in the european union global
successes like skype are rare nordic and baltic countries are way ahead of the e.u. pact though when it comes to digital development denmark tops the block s index for economic and social digitalisation followed by sweden and finland a stone is a ninth position germany comes in fourteenth pretty much mid-field in the e.u. is twenty eight members rumania is the digital taillight for high speed digital network is paradise for business and some countries authorities now even offer digital services to citizens but with much key business and government data now accessible on the web countries are increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks. so what role can the e.u. itself play in fostering digital to vela bent christian asked european commission vice president. who hails from a stone here whether the e.u. can become a global player in the digital sector. for example when talking about robotics of