PM calls on EU to open up competition in service sector

The EU should broaden the scope of freedom on the common market, especially the freedom of services, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said ahead of an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday. The PM said Poland is opposed to limitations on competition in the EU. A discussion of the common market is planned for the second day of an extraordinary sitting of the European Council on Thursday. Morawiecki said the internal market was the "greatest economic value" that had led to the creation first of the European Economic Community (EEC) and later the EU. "Everyone agrees in theory that the area of communitarisation should be broadened, the area of freedom broadened, especially the freedom to provide services..." he said.