Strasbourg, 14/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - The vote at first reading of the Gebhardt report on the “services” directive was the result of a ”great effort on the part of the European Parliament” and, as president of the group, Hans-Gert Pöttering, EPP-ED Group president at the EP, told the press on Tuesday, that he himself has “never been as personally involved in any other project”. Given the resistance shown in recent days by several Member States to the subject of this...