Public services and competition in Europe

• Claude HENRY
  Professor, École polytechnique ; Econometrics Laboratory, École polytechnique
  

Summary

For those politicians who are involved in creating the ethos of Europe, public services are poorly identified when it comes to economics. Competition - the Treaty of Rome byword - is difficult to apply to public services and national customs weigh heavily. Furthermore, what is possible for the Post Office cannot be easily transposed to the railway system.

Summary translated from French by Rachel MARLIN.

• The entire article was written by Pascal LEFEBVRE.

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