European Parliament poised to give the super-regulator a final boot up the backside

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It looks like EU telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding's plans for a European regulator will be shot down by the European Council of Ministers today.

The wind has been blowing strongly against Reding for months now and the parliament seems to have formed a cross-party consensus against the idea of a 'super regulator' on the basis that it will increase bureaucracy and, um... increase bureaucracy.

According to Reding's nemesis on the other side of the regulator debate, the parliament's rapporteur on matters telecom, Spanish MEP Pilar del Castillo, an independent advisory Body of European Regulators in Telecoms (BERT) is the answer.

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European Parliament poised to give the super-regulator a final boot up the backside

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