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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9386
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/social

Parliament calls on Commission and member states to respect diversity of arrangements for organising and managing social services of general interest, one of pillars of European social model

Strasbourg, 14/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - With the adoption of the report by Joël Hasse Ferreira (PES, Portugal) on social services of general interest (SSGI) in the EU, the European Parliament describes as “erroneous” the SSGI approach consisting of opposing, on one hand, the standards relating to competition, public aid and the market and, on the other, the concepts of public service, general interest and social cohesion. It also takes the view, however, that it is necessary to...

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