The EU is very fond of talking about its plan for an information society. This is very different from the plain old boring American information superhighway. It is much cleverer and more sophisticated. They are having a huge conference of the Group of Seven industrialised nations this month, on every conceivable aspect. Nothing much about plugs, though.
Nobody seems very interested in plugs.
I called the European Telecommunications Standard Institute, in France. It took them quite a while to get the right extension and then their press officer didn't know if they dealt with plugs. It is not. If they decide it is, they wouldn't do the job themselves, but would pass it to the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation in Brussels. Then there can be a really dull argument about the Great British Network Termination Point and its place in British tradition, I expect.