This article analyses the 2015 EU Digital Single Market Strategy from the perspective of strategic compliance. Although the purpose of the Strategy is to stimulate investment and increase certainty, this article argues that this will be difficult to achieve. This is a result of three factors....

The article looks at how telecommunications policy origins and developments as well as its dependance on the Single Market framework influenced the Internet. The article starts with a brief overview of EU policymaking in the area of telecommunications (Part I), attempts to explain the Single...