Brussels, 21/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Transport Council endorsed, to applause, the agreement on rail liberalisation concluded with the European Parliament in the context of conciliation procedure, on 22 November. The agreement, which must still be formally adopted by the EP during its plenary sitting end January, provides for rail freight services on the transeuropean network to be opened up to competition in 2003, and on the network as a whole from 2008. The aim of the three directives...