During the official GigaEurope rebranding party this week, the idea was to have influential policymakers and operators outline a vision for how private-public investments and industry consolidation will spearhead superfast speeds. Technical issues that almost led to the event being abandoned all but hampered those plans, leaving us to pick up crumbs of information about Europe’s potential giga-policies from the remaining time. We see no coincidence that organizers placed members of the European Parliament and European Commission alongside executives from VodafoneZiggo and Telenet, given the recent comments from Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries, describing a potential cross-country merger between the two operators as having “compelling logic.” Considering that the Frankenstein operator that is VodafoneZiggo should never have been allowed to…