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The end of national monopolies on postal services? (Photo: EUobserver)

MEPs vote to end EU postal monopolies in 2011

by Helena Spongenberg, STRASBOURG,

European lawmakers have voted in favour of liberalising EU postal services across the 27 member bloc in four years time, a move that could eventually mean the end national monopolies on delivering lightweight letters and postcards.

MEPs meeting in the European Parliament's transport committee in Strasbourg on Monday night (18 June) have with an overwhelming majority (38 MEPs in favour and 6 against) voted to fully open up the postal market by 2011.

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