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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8480

12 June 2003
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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: The time for decisions is nigh for services of general interest

If I were a teacher … (continued). I should like to continue with the fiction begun in this column on 6 June. If I were to explain to high school pupils about the significance of services of general interest, I would go back a long way. I would recall that, in our countries, all citizens have the right to benefit from services such as the postal services, rail transport, electricity, telephone, etc. - services of good quality at affordable prices. To this end, the States apply pricing...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS