EU Wants to Double Online Shopping by 2015

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By: eubusiness.com

(BRUSSELS) - The European Union's executive arm launched a drive on Wednesday to encourage more people to shop online, hoping to double e-commerce and the Internet's contribution to the economy by 2015.

The Internet accounts for less than 3.0 percent of the EU economy while e-commerce represents just 3.4 percent of retail sales in the 27-nation bloc, the European Commission said.

By comparison, the Internet accounted for 20 percent of economic growth and 25 percent of job growth in some G8 countries in the past five years, it noted.































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