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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8028

17 August 2001
(eu) ep/services of a general interest/trade unions
Langen Report is "politically unacceptable", according to European public services unions

Brussels, 16/08/2001 (Agence Europe) - The draft report by Werner Langen MEP (CDU) on services of a general interest is "biased and politically unacceptable", says Carola Fischbach-Pyttel, General Secretary of the European Federation of Public Service Unions (the largest industrial trade union within the European Trade Union Confederation, with 180 unions representing 10 million workers). The European Union must remain neutral on the question of public or private ownership of companies, but,...