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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8888

15 February 2005
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
Services: European Parliament rapporteur takes apart “principle of country of origin”, the basis of draft Bolkestein directive

Towards revision. The major debate underway on the liberalisation of services within the single market, the so-called Bolkestein directive, has three possible outcomes:

a) the draft by the former European Commissioner for the Internal Market is accepted. There is no support for this premise and Mr Bolkestein no longer has any institutional role to play that would allow him to defend it;

b) the Commission is prevailed upon to withdraw the draft. The Commission has no intentions of doing so...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT