also joining us is kim hart of "the politico", one of our regulars.if i could start, and tell us why, mr. ellis, why are you in town this week? in washington? >> guest: well, i with a number of my colleagues from europe and from the business and academic community are here to engage with our american counterparts on a number of key issues which we think will be critical for our future for how the transatlantic economy can be competitive in the future. dealing with demography, the debt and deficit problems which, of course, are on both sides of the or atlantic, grappling with how you cope with increasing debt, all these subjects we hope by the end of the week to have a number of good ideas which we can deepen over the months ahead. >> host: and, if you would, just overall how does the e.u. approach telecommunications policy with 27 member nations, and how is it different from how the u.s. approaches telecommunications policy in your view? >> guest: i think one of our main challenges at the moment is to make sure europe's digital market gets harmonized.

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

. >> host: kim hart of "politico." >> guest: thank you for joining us. i want to jump in with the netherlands is doing on the net neutrality fun. recently, the country with the first to kind of take net neutrality forward npm mobile telephone operators from blocking certain services are paying extra fees for that. can you tell us a little how that law came into being and what it means going forward for the country and e.u. at large? >> guest: what we saw was actually a shareholders meeting, where one of the board members of the largest telecom provider called kp and the sort of bragging to shareholders that they were able to use inspections, monitoring of the traffic of their users to identify whether voice over ip services such as skype were used in order to make sure those services were not competing with their own business model for sending text messages and using telephone survey says we commonly know it. and while that might in a great shareholders to protect a certain business model, this was not something the users in the netherlands appreciated b

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 something in them will have to do the questions union convention style. you're going to have to line up at the mike and you're not going to get a chance to speak unless you see the green light go on. i have my finger on that control. when i get to the question period, it will be lively. i know it will be. this new

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 minutes so they get some tape of something, and then we're going to have to do the questions union convention style. [laughter] you're going to have to line up at the mic, and you're not going to get a chance to speak unless you see the green light go on, and i