Strasbourg, 15/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - At the end of a joint meeting on Wednesday afternoon between the PES and EPP-ED groups, German Social Democrat Evelyne Gebhardt declared to EUROPE that “the compromise is holding firm” on the draft directive on services in the internal market and for which she is the rapporteur. On the eve of the vote in first reading, the positions of the political groups were being finely tuned. There are minority fringes within the main political groups,...