2008-11: It is time for the British Government to get tough with the European Commission on rail freight liberalisation?

It is time for the British Government to get tough with the European Commission on rail freight liberalisation?

‘It is in the interests of the UK Government to support our industry by pressing the case for the complete liberalisation of the rail market across Europe, technically, commercially and legally, with the minimum of delay.’ That is the conclusion of RFG after attending a consultation meeting on Friday 7 November 2008, where representatives of EU industry, regulators and government heard the first results of an EC-sponsored study into the progress on the liberalisation of the European rail freight market and what still needs to be done.

Continued here: http://www.multimodal.org.uk/htm/n20081110.169503.htm