Street traders staged a demo
outside the Senate Tuesday against the extension of the
Bolkestein directive in the so-called Milleproroghe decree.
The Senate later approved putting off the implementation of
the directive until the end of next year.
The directive, named after former EU internal market
commissioner Frits Bolkestein, aims to create a free market for
the services sector by requiring the reissue of tenders for
commercial activities such as markets, stalls and food trucks.
The traders succeeded in their goal of being admitted to the
Senate and heard by the upper house's Constitutional affairs
committee.
Rome city council recently voted against implementing the
directive, in a move that was seen as playing into the hands of
the powerful Tredicine clan who hold a virtual monopoly over
mobile sandwich bars in the Italian capital.
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