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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8070

15 October 2001
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/telecommunications
Agreement among the Fifteen on pursuing opening postal services to competition - Decision on total opening postponed to 2009

Luxembourg, 15/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - Meeting in Council in Luxembourg, the ministers responsible for telecommunications finally reached a political agreement late Monday afternoon, a little before we were going to press, on the thorny issue of opening up the Union's postal services to competition. From the compromise presented by the Belgian Presidency (see yesterday's EUROPE, p.11), the agreement essentially takes on board the two first points, but the so-called "decisive" stage of...

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