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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8910

17 March 2005
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
The mistakes Mr Barroso made with the Bolkestein directive

A non-existent dividing line. Not long ago, I wrote that José Manuel Barroso has one skill nobody could disagree with: his tactical ability. But I'm not sure we've seen much evidence of it over the Bolkestein directive. Firstly, he supported the notion of a dividing line between the new and the old Member States, which is not quite what you'd expect from a President of the Commission. Secondly, he handed the French anti-Constitution movement an argument for their anti-European cause on a...

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