After the Storm. Navigating Europe’s new ICT policy landscape Free ICT Europe has released its first 2026 interim report, After the Storm, offering a timely analysis of how shifting EU political priorities are reshaping the future of the ICT market and the secondary technology ecosystem. Drawing on developments from the second half of 2025 and…
Driven to reach Sustainability and Circular economy goals, Europe wants to lead the change. The EU Ecodesign Directive is one of the EU tools; aimed at setting mandatory minimum requirements for individual product groups. For new Servers and Storage, ENTR Lot 9, this has now been published and will become effectively in March 2020. Free…
The Free ICT Europe Foundation is lobbying the European Commission and the European Parliament. An expert assessment of the market and its current issues is necessary to inform the view of policymakers in Brussels. Deloitte Economic Advisory has been asked to accompany Free ICT Europe in providing a plan and a report for an economic…
The European Commission presented its legislative proposal for consumer product Right to Repair on Wednesday, 22 March. Whilst this is a step forward, it is hampered by not including the public and private sector (over 60% of the market) and a failure to curb the restrictive practices of some large manufacturers as well as the…
Free ICT Europe (FIE) established to support industry expected to be worth €90bn, providing an additional 100,000 European jobs by 2017 A group of independent European IT services operators have announced the formation of an international alliance, established in order to champion the growth of the secondary IT market in Europe and to raise awareness…