The EU’s commissioner for digital policy today made a push to abolish cell phone roaming charges and encouraged member countries to embrace net neutrality.

“I want you to be able to go back to your constituents and say that you were able to end mobile roaming costs,” Neelie Kroes told(Opens in a new window) a European Parliament committee today. “I want you to be able to say that you saved their right to access the open Internet, by guaranteeing net neutrality.”

The basic idea behind net neutrality is that everyone should have equal access to the Web. Amazon should not be able to pay to have its website load faster than a mom-and-pop e-commerce site, for example, and an ISP should not block or throttle one particular app, like BitTorrent. In the U.S., the FCC has passed net neutrality rules, though several top telecoms argued that the commission does not have the authority to hand down such rules.

In a tweet(Opens in a new window), Kroes said today that blocking and throttling Internet service and apps “hurts us all” and is anti-competitive.

On roaming, meanwhile, the European Parliament last year approved a plan that put a cap on how much travelers can rack up in mobile roaming charges, effective July 1. It capped the price of data at 70 Euro cents per megabyte, which falls to 45 cents this year and 20 cents by July 1, 2014.

Kroes wants to take that even further. “Let’s get rid of mobile #roaming costs once and for all. Work with me over next to make it happen,” she tweeted.

She acknowledged that getting all member states to agree will be difficult, but pushed to deliver a full package that addresses these issues around Easter 2014. “It is only if a genuine single market actually exists that roaming can cease to exist, in legal or economic terms,” she said.

“Let me ask you this: why did you become a member of the European Parliament rather than a member of a national Parliament? I am guessing in part because you do not like artificial borders,” she mused. “That you believe we can achieve more when the freedom and competition are greater, the opportunity is bigger, and consumer rights are real! In telecoms, of all sectors, there is no place for borders! It’s called a worldwide web for a reason!”

Kroes called for a “radical legislative compromise. ‘Radical’ because an economic disaster requires big action, [and] ‘compromise’ because everyone will have to give, in order to get.”