Brussels, 14/12/2012 (Agence Europe) - Poland, the Czech Republic, France, Slovenia and Luxembourg have been singled out by Advocate General Niilo Jaaskinen at the European Court of Justice for failure to properly liberalise their rail industry and keeping a national monopoly over “essential functions,” thus breaking the EU rail transport directives.
The five countries have not outsourced “essential functions” like issuing rail licences for running transport services, hiving off...