EU Commission Monitor - 30/09/08

EU Commissioner wants to ease SMEs' red tape burden: Keeping the credit crunch wolves at bay 30/09/08
"The European Union yesterday called on Member States to participate in a major review of the accounting directives for small biz firms to help reduce the administrative burden on SMEs. Charlie McCreevy, who is the EU Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, said that during this “difficult period” of ongoing economic doom and gloom the small biz world, which many tech multinationals have increasingly punted their goods at in recent years, could be easily overlooked." [TheRegister]

EU bids to dominate future nebulous buzzword: 'We don't know what Web 3.0 is, but we must have it' 29/09/08
"The European Commission has called out for help on how it can "put Europe into the lead of the transition to Web 3.0". It doesn't seem sure what web 3.0 is or could be in the future - it just knows it wants it. To that end, it's today launched a public consultation inviting opinions on this forthcoming "next wave of the Information Revolution."" [TheRegister]