USA AND EU BID TO END OPEN SKIES AGREEMENT TALKS
March 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TALKS between the United States and the European Union (EU) on deepening their 'open skies' agreement will focus on the key question of allowing free trans-Atlantic investment within both sides' aviation sectors. EU ministers have been advised by the European Commission that negotiations in Madrid on February 15-17 made "significant progress" on common "environmental protection, labour, [and] competition rules and reciprocal recognition of regulatory decisions." However, the right of EU and US companies to own airports and ...
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