Top about digital future of EU

A top conference on the future of the EU will be held at the end of September.

Ratas pointed to Estonia's reputation as 'e-country'. No EU Member State is digitized as this Baltic Sea. 'Our reputation is apparently so strong that we are expected to deliver an' e-Europe 'within half a year,' he joked.

According to Ratas, a well functioning digital single market would add more than 400 billion euros to the economy and create hundreds of thousands of jobs a year in the EU. 'Europe must act quickly not to get behind. One of the conditions for success is free data traffic. '

Estonia is six months from 1 July EU Chairman but the conference is not a formal EU summit.