we also have james elles. also joining us this kim hart of politico, one of our regulars. tell us why you are in town this week, mr. elles? >> i and a number of my colleagues are here to engage with our american counterparts on a number of key issues which we think will be critical for our picture of how the trans- atlantic economy can be competitive in the feature of dealing with financial convergence, the debts and deficits problem on both sides of the atlantic, all these subjects where we hope by the end of the week to have a number of good ideas which we can deepen over the months ahead. >> marietje schaake, overall, how does the eu approach telecommunications policy with 27 member nations, and how is it different from how the u.s. approaches telecommunications policy, in your view? >> one of our main challenges is to make sure that you are a of the digital market gets harmonized. both friends and critics of the e you think a harmonized market has brought us a lot of stability and help the economy overall, but online is not the same. the fragmentation of fight in your

james elles, member of the conservative party for the u.k. kim hart is that the "politico." >> host: you just mentioned 500 million people that you want to be connected to the internet and how about the access and benefits that come along with the internet. wireless thing sure is a big part of connectedness people in all parts of rural and remote island and so on. what is the spectrum situation like in europe as i'm sure you know, that is a big topic of conversation here with the spectrum shortage and how are we going to maximize the use of the commercially available spectrum to make local broadband more available. can you tell us about what the situation is like in europe? >> guest: well, which is worked on the report in the european parliament. i was involved with that regarding policy spectrum in europe because of a hot policy for is the same. dolby revision coming up. one of the issues necessary now is to do an assess minute for each member state of the e.u. stands because we have countries which are economically at a different level, whi

. >> host: james elles has been a member of the parliament since 1984. is also cofounder of the european internet foundation. marietje schaake has been a member of the parliament since 2009 from the netherlands. we appreciate you both coming onto "the communicators." kim hart as always of the "politico," thank you. >> thank you. >> steve early examines the current organizing strategies and structures of many labor unions in the united states. he also reports on the internal conflicts in 2008 to 2010 but according to the author hurt reputations unanchored supporters. this is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> i want to thank everybody for coming out tonight. i want to thank the busboys team. and it is a great team, which tonight includes christine taylor from booktv at c-span. i want to thank her for doing the video were. it's going to make the proceedings more formal than we were at the 14th in the location and did a number with the microphones floating around in mainly a question. period going to talk for about 15 minutes so they get some tape is somethin

. >> host: james elles has been a member of the european parliament since 19384. -- 1984. he's co-founder of the european internet foundation. ms. schaake is from the netherlands, we appreciate you both coming over on to "the communicators." kim hart of "the politico", thank you as well. >> host: thank you. >> labor journalist steve early examines the current organizing strategies and structures of many labor unions in the united states. he also reports on the internal conflicts from 2008 to 2010 that according to the author hurt union reputations and angered supporters. this is about an hour and 20 minutes. [applause] >> i want to thank everybody for coming out here tonight, and i want to thank the busboys team, and it is a great team which tonight includes christine taylor from booktv at c-span, want to thank her for doing the video work. [applause] it's going to make the proceedings a little more formal than when we were at the 14th location and kind of did an oprah number with the microphone floating around and mainly a question period. um, going to talk for about 15 m

james elles, a member of conservative party of the u.k.kim hart is from politico. >> host: you just mentioned 500 million people you want to have all of the access and benefits that come along with the benefit. wireless, i'm sure, is a big part of connecting these people, um, in if all parts rural and remote islands and so on. what is the spectrum situation like in europe, um, as i'm sure you know, that's a big topic of conversation here with the spectrum shortage and how are we going to maximize the use of the commercially-available spectrum in order to make mobile broadband more available. can you tell us a little bit about what that situation is like in europe? >> guest: well, we just worked on a report in the european parliament, i was also involved with that regarding spectrum, because it's a hot topic for us just the same. one of the issues that is necessary now is to actually do an assessment of where each member state of the e.u. stands because we have countries which are economically at a different level which have developed spect