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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7870
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/postal services

Council tries for whole day to find a compromise on liberalisation of postal services, but in evening no compromise was found

Brussels, 22/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - The problem of the liberalisation of postal services monopolised discussions of the Telecom Council, which met on Friday under the chairmanship of Christian Perret, French Industry Minister. The ministers discussed a compromise tabled by the Netherlands, following the lack of success of the Commission's proposal to certain Member States. In the evening, it seemed unlikely that they would manage to break the deadlock, as opinions were very contradictory...

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