TRANSATLANTIC DEALS
February 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has asked European Union (EU) ministers to give it the authority to block future trans-Atlantic deals involving American and EU airlines by ensuring that special open-skies deals negotiated between a Member State and the USA are officially banned. This move follows a ruling of the European Court of Justice that such agreements broke EU fair trade rules. A regulation proposed by the Commission would insist that "information about bilateral discussions between Member States and foreign countries is passed to other Member ...
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