2004 - 14 June: EPSU Statement on the White Paper of the European Commission on Services of General Interest, COM(2004) 374

The EPSU Executive Committee, meeting on 14 June 2004, takes note of the White Paper of the European Commission on Services of General Interest. EPSU acknowledges a number of positive elements contained in the White Paper. On the whole though the White Paper offers little more than was already known before its actual publication and is therefore overall disappointing as the outcome of a long discussion process. Indeed, a number of the statements made in the White Paper have to be viewed very critically.

For full text see Priorities section, Services of General Interest