Strasbourg, 24/04/2007 (Agence Europe) - As expected, on Tuesday 24 April, the European Parliament adopted the text on the draft directive on payment services on which the Ecofin Council had reached preliminary agreement at the end of March (see EUROPE 9395). A single amendment, brought forward by the EPP-ED, PES and ALDE political groups, sealed the inter-institutional agreement and opened the way for the definitive adoption of the draft directive in first reading. “The compromise text is...