Europe’s greatest political challenge is to reconnect with European citizens, to show that the European Union has something to offer in terms of a better quality of life. Good public services, available to all, are a crucial part of the European way of life. But the EU has at best a mixed record on this. The lack of a clear European legal framework for public services paradoxically puts public services, run at national or local level, at risk of interference from the European Court of (...)