MEPs continue to stand against liberalisation

The European Parliament has passed a resolution against private water in the strategy for the Millennium Development Goals. Germany’s communal utilities association wants the EU to go further.

The European Parliament (EP) has expressed anew its rejection of liberalisation of the water sector. In a recent resolution on the role of the European Union in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it “reiterates, with regard to discussions on the effects of liberalisation in the water sector, that water-related services should, as a matter of principle, stay ...

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