Socialist European deputies propose a framework directive for services of general economic interest

The European Commission has always been reluctant to the idea of producing a framework directive on this issue. It has highlighted, on the one hand, the absence of legal basic for such a text and, on the other hand, the technical difficulty that its drafting would trigger. The proposal of the PES, written by experts, aims at showing the Commission that its arguments are irrelevant. The debate over the “services” directive highlighted the importance of distinguishing services from other goods an