Former EU Commissioner Frits Bolkestein has said French protesters against the EU's proposed services directive are "short-sighted" as they were using it "for party political reasons" and as a pretext to protest against "the French rightwing government".
Mr Bolkestein, who brought forward the controversial legislation towards the end of his term as internal market commissioner, is angry at it being so strongly linked to his name.
"Linking the services directive so clearly to my na...
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