The requests have until now only been accessible to a small number of European Parliamentarians, under conditions of the strictest secrecy. Also the E.U.'s draft “Initial Offers”, which form the basis for horse-trading in the next phase of the GATS negotiations, were recently leaked and can be found on the GATSwatch website:
http://www.gatswatch.org/docs/offreq/EUoffer/EU-draftoffer-1.pdf
The list leaves no doubt about the European Commission's intention to further open up postal, environmental, telecommunications, distribution (including retail), transport and financial services in the E.U. for international competition.
For more information, please contact Erik Wesselius, GATSwatch:
telephone (+31) 30 2364422, email erik@corporateeurope.org
Further analysis of the leaked E.U. documents will be posted on the GATSwatch website: http://www.gatswatch.org in the coming days and weeks.
GATSwatch is a joint project of Corporate Europe Observatory and Transnational Institute
http://www.gatswatch.org/docs/offreq/EUoffer/EU-draftoffer-1.pdf
The list leaves no doubt about the European Commission's intention to further open up postal, environmental, telecommunications, distribution (including retail), transport and financial services in the E.U. for international competition.
For more information, please contact Erik Wesselius, GATSwatch:
telephone (+31) 30 2364422, email erik@corporateeurope.org
Further analysis of the leaked E.U. documents will be posted on the GATSwatch website: http://www.gatswatch.org in the coming days and weeks.
GATSwatch is a joint project of Corporate Europe Observatory and Transnational Institute