Public services, project still postponed…

(B2) Promised for the end of 2006, then for March, and, lastly, April 2007, the communication from the European Commission on Services of General Interest was finally withdrawn from the provisional schedules. “It will be done by the summer,” we are assured at the Berlaymont, headquarters of the European Commission. Explanation of the delays: "The differences between services"... As for those who would make the parallel with the electoral campaign in France, and this postponement after the 2nd round of the legislative elections, these are very nasty tongues...

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