EUROPE - Brussels again issued a warning on the delay around the "slow" progress of the pensions directive in view of the year-end deadline. The update follows the meeting of EU economic and finance ministers in preparation for next week's Barcelona summit. Brussels is now eager to translate words into hard political agreements. European commissioner for the internal market and taxation, Frits Bolkestein set out the Commission's goals on financial services for the summit.
Barcelona should reinforce the message that integrating financial markets is a prerequisite if the EU is to achieve its goal of becoming the world's most competitive economy by 2010, he said. He p...
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