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E-commerce and the new economy

60. E-commerce will make the single currency obsolete. Unless the entire world adopts one currency, this is just not true. Currency fluctuations will remain as much a barrier to trade over the internet as to most other forms of trade. Caspar Bowden, Foundation for Information Policy Research Director (www.fipr.org), has said: "Web-trading will intensify competition in many sectors but it will not eliminate transaction costs arising from exchange-rate risk."

61. Britain is more suited to exploiting the e-economy than the rest of the EU. This is untrue. During 1999, online households in Britain as a proportion of total households were fewer than in other EU countries like Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden.

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Andrew's work
in the European Parliament since 1999

Andrew is Vice-President of the European Parliament delegation to the Constitutional Convention on the Future of Europe.

Rights for EU citizens

Andrew drafted the Charter of Fundamental Rights which has strengthened the rights of all the citizens of the European Union.

Turkey

Andrew is working for improved links between the EU and Turkey, to encourage improvements in Turkey's human rights record and to enhance its democracy.

Andrew's campaigning in the East of England

Airport Expansion

Andrew has led calls for the Air Travel industry to be sunjected to the same rigourous environmental criteria as other modes of transport