Brussels, 17/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - The vote on the Gebhardt Report in the European Parliament on the Services Directive has been broadly welcomed with a few exceptions (see related article and Europe 9133 on positive reaction from European Trade Union Confederation and disappointment from UNICE).
The President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), Anne-Marie Sigmund, for example, welcomed the result, 'satisfied that the European Parliament's solution is close to the...