The own-initiative report by Olle Ludvigsson (S&D, Sweden) on the European Commission's action plan on retail financial services, which was adopted by the European Parliament on Tuesday 14 November by a considerable majority (489 votes to 126 with 64 abstentions), calls for concrete proposals to tackle the 'geo-blocking' of financial services on the European single market.
Readers may recall that the Commission's action plan, which was presented on 23 March of this year (see EUROPE 11752),...