Brussels, 20/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - The reaction of representatives of public services and enterprises with public participation to the vote in the first reading of the Gebhardt report on the services directive is broadly positive (see EUROPE 9133 on the vote in plenary and 9134 on other reactions). Carola Fischbach-Pyttel, the General Secretary of the European federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU), welcomes the “political recognition of the fundamental role of public services in...