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Publishers Abstract:
The European Council at its meeting of Mar 23-Mar 24, 2006 reached a conclusion on the pending -- and controversial -- proposal for a directive regarding services within the internal market. At first sight this statement of the European Council may seem to provide a nicely balanced summary of the diverse interests involved in the legislative process of this high profile directive. Upon closer inspection, this anodyne conclusion is yet another example of the perfect double speak with which the members of the highest institution of the EU try to suggest that adherence to conflicting goals in the Community is perfectly possible without sacrificing in any way the focus of the objectives. How different is the political reality in the face of the difficult policy choices that need to be made in the context of the cumbersome gestation process of what came to be known as the Bolkestein directive.
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