Brussels will force European Union train drivers to speak English under rules designed to unite transport networks between member states. Despite misgivings among some EU member states, English has officially been selected as the standardised language used by train drivers. The move will likely upset MEPs who insisted English be banished as…
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BRUSSELS is to force European Union train drivers to speak English under rules designed to foster closer ties between member states. Rules to be announced this autumn under the EU’s “Train Drivers’ Directive” will mandate that a single common language is enforced. Sources say that English is set to be…
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Article written by Gill Plimmer and originally published in The Financial Times Shareholders in water and energy monopolies should receive steady but unspectacular returns, says government adviser Britain’s water and energy watchdogs should be empowered to crack down on companies “ripping off” consumers and “causing harm to the economy”, a…
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I’m honoured to be this month’s ‘Parliamentary TechChampion’, because of the role technology can play in sharpening competition to create big, powerful citizen-consumers so markets work for people rather than the other way round. This is a key theme in my Government-commissioned report on Competition Policy, Power to the People…
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