It was more of an analog — rather than digital — single market scenario this afternoon at the European Commission.

When the Commission launched a mid-term review of its digital single market efforts, not much went right.

Playbook’s sources reported that the video link and document link for the press materials didn’t work when first posted. Additionally, Playbook was unable to access some of the graphics associated with the communication materials (screenshot below). 

One of the documents posted by the Commission on the ‘RAPID’ press information service sent internet users to a version of the Digital Single Market mid-term review document that included dozens of tracked changes.

The comments and changes are from the Commission’s secretariat-general’s Ann-Sofie Ronnlund and Andrus Ansip cabinet member Jorgen Gren.

You can read the document here.

The Commission had trouble presenting much of its Digital Single Market Review content Wednesday

The most significant tracked changes are in a section about pushing online platforms, like search engines and social networks, to be “responsible players” in a “fair internet ecosystem.”

Thirty years after Jacques Delors launched the European single market, 20 years after the telecoms industry was liberalized, and 10 years after the Commission first started to build a wider digital single market, there’s still a long road ahead for the EU.

Mariya Gabriel, Bulgaria’s candidate to replace Kristalina Georgieva as European commissioner, has all this and more to look forward to if Jean-Claude Juncker nominates her for the digital commissioner portfolio.