Brussels, 14/02/2007 (Agence Europe) - “In day-to-day practice (…), significant weaknesses are apparent which prevent European companies from fully exploiting the possibilities of the internal market. Only a fraction of European manufacturers participate at all in cross-border trade. SMEs in particular often baulk at crossing the border because they do not know their rights or because there are barriers that make the product unnecessarily expensive”, said Günter Verheugen on Wednesday...