Brussels, 12/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Socialist Group at the European Parliament unanimously adopted the report by Belgian national Claude Desama on the services of general interest. Recalling that the European Commission has published an updated version of its communication of September 1996 on public services, the report stresses that one cannot affirm that the Commission is moving away from the philosophy essentially based on the notion of competition that it has always upheld. Mr...