Strasbourg, 18/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - The third railway package, which since September 2005 has been ushered back and forth between the Parliament and Council, was adopted on Thursday in a second reading by MEPs. Although the main bone of contention, the opening up of the national passenger markets proposed by rapporteur Georg Jarzembowski (EPP/ED, Germany) was rejected, conciliation procedure will be necessary for the adoption of an amendment on the extension of passenger rights and...