An inescapable dossier. The signs are all there: the services of general interest (SGI) dossier is currently at the centre of European current affairs. It has become unavoidable within reflections on the European model of society, on the completion of the great single market without borders, on the liberalisation of services, the Lisbon Strategy, and certain political forces have even made it into an issue in the ratification of the Constitution. I feel that this last aspect is unjustified....