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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9171

11 April 2006
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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Revised "Services" Directive: political and psychological effects immediate, economic ones further off - Clarifications and additional texts needed

The two rifts healed. I felt that the new draft "services" directive (which should no longer be called the "Bolkestein directive", as it has been changed so much) was one of the two European success stories of last week, alongside the agreement on financial perspectives 2007-2013. But its effects will be neither as immediate nor, in my opinion, as important as certain observers claim. This has nothing to do with the effects of relaunching all areas of Community activities, resulting from the...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT