Brussels, 21/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - Catherine Colonna, the French Minister for European affairs, reacted from Rome last Thursday to the vote at first reading on the Gebhardt report on the "services" directive. "The first thing to be said is that as from today, we can no longer talk about the Bolkestein directive", she said, adding that the text "is now very close to what we were calling for: the principle of the country of origin has been abandoned, buried; the applicable social rights will...