An outcry from major European city governments - such as Amsterdam, Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona and Budapest - has helped shelve an EU Commission power grab over the services industry.
In a little-noticed procedural manoeuvre, last month the commission was forced to withdraw a so-called 'Services Notification Procedure' - which would have given it advance veto power over ...
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Olivier Hoedeman is a researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory, an NGO which researches corporate lobbying in Brussels.