The reform process needs to be widened to take in other parts of the economy and should include a restructuring of savings banks, upgrading the education and training system, and applying the European Union directive for services in order to improve competition and create new firms.
These universal statements need to be translated into explicit directives so that they can be used as a baseline for service providers.
they receive regularly lists of persons summoned and persons liable for service, to enable them to act immediately in cases where German directives have not been complied with.
In its original form, the so-called "Bolkestein directive" was supposed to do the same for services, that is, for economic activities you cannot put on a train (like finance, hairdressing, or retailing).
Such concerns were also behind the stalling earlier this year of a directive that was supposed to open markets for services to the same free flow enjoyed in markets for goods.
The key investment-services directive, for instance, which sets conditions for a single EU-wide licence for investment firms, and which empowers stock exchanges to operate across borders, was watered down and implemented belatedly.
With this 'Monti package' and the proposal for a directive on services, however, the Commission is dealing with the issue of public services.
The Aix-en-Provence services did not run in 2014 but will be replaced along with the seasonal Avignon Centre services with the new year round service to Marseille as of 1 May 2015 In 2010, international rail travel was liberalised by new European Union directives, designed to break up monopolies in order to encourage competition for services between countries.
Such long delays were behind the proposals in a recent report by a group of "wise men", led by Baron Alexandre Lamfalussy, for a streamlined procedure for the adoption of EU directives on financial services and securities markets.
"They can function as a directive to civil service appointees to not comply with congressional directives," Agrast said.
