The European Commission is to make its first cautious move into the largely untouched area of sport.
A document to be tabled later today (11 July) examines highly contentious issues such as selection and transfers of players, corruption and TV rights.
The so-called white paper on sport will be presented by EU commissioner Jan Figel and is first political document designed to provoke an EU-wide debate on social, economic and organisational aspects of the big-money business.
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