”There will be no way to come out of the crisis without budget consolidations and there will be no budget consolidations without reforms for growth. Now is the time for deep structural reforms, which will allow for the creation of new jobs and sustainable growth, The reform and full implementation of the Service Directive must stand at the heart of these efforts ”, said Gunnar Hökmark, EPP Group Vice President and Chair of the Working Group on Economic Policy of the European People’s Party (EPP) which today has adopted a resolution on the single market.
”We need a strong political commitment to deliver on concrete reforms that create a real freedom of movement for goods, persons, services and capital in Europe. We call on the European Commission to swiftly bring forward a proposal aimed at making the service directive applicable to all sectors” said Gunnar Hökmark.
”With over 70% of the EU’s GDP being dependent on services we must now rise to the challenge and embark on ambitious reforms that give Europe’s service sector acceess to a 500 million consumer market”