"A gap exists between rhetoric and reality". Through its communication denouncing the delays and shortcomings in implementing the strategy for the Internal Market (see out bulletin of 18 April, p.9), the European Commission placed emphasis on one essential point: there is no point in launching and approving ambitious programmes and ranting on about the impact they will have, if then these programmes are not respected. Commissioner Frits Bolkestein is far from satisfied. His comments are...