TELECOMMUNICATIONS : PARLIAMENT WANTS TO SPEED UP TELECOMS PACKAGE.

The rapporteurs in the European Parliament for the telecoms package are determined to find a solution before the end of this term (mid-2009) to push the European Commission into dialogue and to rouse the Council.

"We think that this package is one of the main subjects that the EP will work on until the end of the term (there is also an energy package). Because today telecoms make up a large part of EU growth, with 250 million Europeans connected to the internet," said Catherine Trautmann (PES, France), who is responsible for the draft framework directive, on 23 April in Strasbourg, in the margins of the plenary session. "However, access is still not optimal everywhere," she added.

After the vote in the different EP committees, particularly industry,...

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