Strasbourg, 05/04/2006 (Agence Europe) - Visibly encouraged by an end to the impasse on the draft “services” directive and financial perspectives for 2007-13, Wolfgang Schüssel and José Manuel Barroso drew up a largely positive balance sheet before MEPs, of the Spring Summit of 23-24 March (for budgetary negotiations, see other article, for “services” directive, EUROPE 9167). Both of them were hoping for progress on services and the EU budget so that that a conclusion to these...