EU leaders greenlight services law compromise

EU leaders have agreed to give political backing to a disputed piece of legislation on services, exactly one year after the French president declared it dead.

But since last year, the law on opening up the bloc's internal market in services has lost its most controversial elements.\n \nIn the summit’s conclusions adopted on Friday (24 March), member states "took good note" of the commission's intention to reformulate the original proposal in a way that makes it based "largely on the out...