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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8847

14 December 2004
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
Caution on the part of the next Presidency of the Council (Luxembourg) on the Bolkestein directive - The European Parliament is taking its time

Progress for transparency. The Luxembourg Presidency of the Council is going to start again from scratch, or thereabouts. I refer to the infamous Bolkestein directive on the liberalisation of services. The current Dutch Presidency first of all tried to speed up its adoption, but in the end they realised that they were kidding themselves if they thought they would be able to get it through this month at first reading: it has no choice but to bequeath it to the next Presidency. And Luxembourg...

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