Looking at the texts. The proposal aimed at liberalising services in the Union, the so-called "Bolkestein Directive" after the Commissioner entrusted with the dossier, has raised a few eyebrows (see this column yesterday). Let's go back and look at the texts. The proposal, approved by the Commission on 13 January this year (and summarised in our bulletin of 14 January) had been preceded, in July 2002, by a detailed report on the situation and by broad consultation. Our title summarised the...