Strasbourg, 16/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament's Committee on Economic Affairs adopted on Monday evening the report by Philippe Herzog (GUE, France) on services of general interest, to be discussed during the mid-January plenary session. After an "intense political battle", as Mr Herzog put it, the report was considerably amended, doing away with one of its key proposals: - adoption of a framework directive which would have defined general principles such as continuity or...