German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is to make the proposed EU services directive the top theme at a meeting with European Commission President José Manuel Durao Barroso on Tuesday (15 February).
According to a report in German news magazine Der Spiegel, Mr Schröder wants to push through several exemptions for Germany.
The aim is to protect the German market from wage- and social-dumping and to stop German unemployment figures rising due to cheap labour from eastern Europe.
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