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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9110

17 January 2006
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport
There are alternatives to proposed privatisation of port services, says Jacques Barrot

Brussels, 16/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Monday, on the eve of the plenary debate and with thousands of dockers demonstrating their opposition to the text, European Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot said that the European Union's ports policy is not necessarily about the controversial draft Directive to privatise port services within the EU. Mr Barrot said that he hoped that the rapporteur, Georg Jarzembowski, would be successful with the amended proposal, but added that he would be...

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