After almost a year of debates raging across Europe, a number of delays on the agenda and finally over four hours of voting, MEPs have made a significant step forward to adopting the hotly disputed services directive.
The European parliament's internal market committee on Tuesday (22 November) passed the law aimed at liberalising the services sector, dubbed as the "Bolkestein directive" after its author, Dutch ex-commissioner Frits Bolkestein.
Opposition against the directive was ...
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