Brussels, 07/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Council of EU Economy and Finance Ministers definitively adopted, on Tuesday, the new directive on postal services which provides for opening up large additional segments of the market to competition from 2003 and 2006, and defines the later stages of the liberalisation process in the sector (see EUROPE of 14 March, p.11). Commissioner Frits Bolkestein stressed that the "implementation of the international market for postal services is one of the...