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Telecoms ministers want telecoms regulation to remain a national competence (Photo: EUobserver)

EU states bin telecoms 'super-regulator' idea

EU telecoms ministers have rejected European Commission proposals to harmonise oversight of communications networks across Europe under a commission-controlled "super-regulator."

Meeting on Thursday (27 November) in Brussels, the ministers dashed the commission's hopes of seeing the establishment of a new EU-level telecoms body that would supercede national regulators and give the EU executive the right to veto member state decisions in the area.

Under the commission's original No...

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Telecoms ministers want telecoms regulation to remain a national competence (Photo: EUobserver)

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