EU SPLIT ON AIRLINE COMPETITION BILL
July 1st, 2018
EUROPEAN Union (EU) parliamentarians and governments are split over an airline competition proposal ahead of crucial negotiations this autumn. The Council of Ministers, representing EU governments, and European Parliament go into three-way negotiations – known as ‘trilogues’ - with the executive European Commission that put forward the proposal on safeguarding competition in air transport in June 2017. The problem is that all hree are far apart on key issues.
The proposal, which revamps a 2004 EU regulation on competition that has never been applied as it ...
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