Franchise and the transport market: a new threat from Brussels.

Contrary to the general liberalisation of transport policy that has followed in the European Union for some years now, a proposal is circulating in the Council and Parliament that would reverse all the gains that have been achieved from deregulation of bus and train services. It would return effective decisions to 'competent authorities' and it would drive out competent managers as they lost the freedom to manage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]