Europe’s vanguard stuck in slow lane

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Series Details 13.1.04
Publication Date 13/01/2004
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Member States are still failing to implement many EU Internal Market laws correctly and on time. According to figures released by the European Commission in January 2004, 131 Directives (around 8.5% of Internal Market Directives) have still not been implemented into national law in every Member State, though the deadlines agreed by the Member States themselves when they adopted the Directives have passed. Belgium, France, Germany and Luxembourg - the countries that proposed a two-speed Europe after the failure to agree an EU constitution in December 2003 - are bottom of the list of countries putting EU legislation into force.

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