Bolkestein directive
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The Bolkestein directive or Services Directive, officially Services in the Internal Market Directive 2006/123/EC, is a European Union law aiming at establishing a single market for services within the
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French and Belgian trade unions protesting against the directive in Brussels on 19 March 2005
Protests against the directive in Strasbourg on 12 February 2006
European Parliament
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The European Parliament is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union, it adopts European legislation, f
Bolkestein directive
…which the Services Directive was one; however, agreement was not achieved during its presidency. From 14 to 16 February 2006 a plenary session of the European Parliament carried out its first reading of the Directive in Strasbourg. On 16 February 2006 MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) voted 391–213 in favour of…
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The European Parliament in Strasbourg
Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in the former House of Europe in Strasbourg, France in January 1967. Willy Brandt, West German minister for Foreign Affairs, is speaking.