Download or read book CONTENDING WITH `UNITY IN DIVERSITY' THROUGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY: THE EU'S TELEVISION WITHOUT FRONTIERS DIRECTIVE AND THE ELECTRONIC COMMERCE DIRECTIVE written by Erin Kathleen Coleman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two major pieces of legislation--the Television without Frontiers Directive (now the Media Services Directive) and the Electronic Commerce Directive--serve as cornerstones of the EU's telecommunications policy, intended to strengthen intra-European production and trade and thus increase the size of the unified economic bloc. Yet neither directive has succeeded in fostering intra-European production and trade or in building a common European cultural identity.