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Unelected EU nomenklatura aims to privatise all railways
Today trade unionists are picketing an EU transport ministers’ meeting in Luxembourg to discuss the 4th Railway Package which outlaws national publicly owned monopolies operating rail services. BRIAN DENNY has the story
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Trade unionists from across Europe are picketing an EU transport ministers’ meeting in Luxembourg today to oppose the adoption of a “common approach” to privatising railway networks across the continent.
The proposals are contained in the EU’s 4th Railway Package, which was first unveiled over two years ago but has been held up due to division among member states.
To get round this little difficulty, ministers will rubber stamp a so-called “political pillar” of the rail package, which demands independency of infrastructure managers and open access competition for domestic commercial rail passenger services.
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