The European Parliament has approved at second reading an EU directive aimed at opening up Europe's services sector to cross-border competition. Services from hairdressing to IT would all be covered ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Charlie McCreevy, the European Union’s single market commissioner, on Tuesday defended his decision to forge ...

Tomorrow (11 November) a parliamentary hearing in Brussels will give a platform to some of the various interest groups that have been riled by the Commission’s proposal. The Commission argued when it ...

Disclaimer: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF.The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those ...

Meps had a first opportunity to react to the Commission's revised proposals on the services directive, when Commissioners Charlie McCreevy and Vladimir Spidla outlined their new draft to the European ...

Gebhardt has had an unenviable task. Launched last year as the final of ‘four freedoms’ in the EU single market, after goods, people and capital, the European Commission’s directive to open up its ...

Embracing the Services Directive OVER the past few years, few European legislative proposals have attracted the attention of the member states and the business sector as the Proposal for a Directive ...