OPEN SKIES LATEST
August 1st, 2004
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening to ask the European Court of Justice to levy daily recurring fines of Euro 1,000's against eight European Union (EU) member countries failing to scrap bilateral 'open skies'; deals with the USA. Despite being so ordered 18 months ago, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg and Sweden have maintained their agreements while the Commission negotiates an EU-wide replacement.
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening to ask the European Court of Justice to levy daily recurring fines of Euro 1,000's against eight European Union (EU) member countries failing to scrap bilateral 'open skies'; deals with the USA. Despite being so ordered 18 months ago, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg and Sweden have maintained their agreements while the Commission negotiates an EU-wide replacement.
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