EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Union sports ministers are set to consider French proposals for EU regulation of professional sports club financing later this week. The French EU presidency is to unveil at a meeting of the ministers in Biarritz on Thursday (27 November) and Friday its plans to reform European sporting governance in a move that UK Tories are criticising as approaching a sports "super-regulator." France is not looking for an EU sporting super-regulator, the presidency insists Paris would like to see implemented at the European level a body modelled on France's national pro-sports regulator, the Direction Nationale du Controle de Gestion (DNCG), which oversees professional football in the country. British Conservative MEPs say the proposals are the "culmination of a campaign by President Sarkozy" to govern the sector, noting the French leader had first announced similar plans in the European Parliament at the beginning of the French EU presidency. UK Tory MEP Chris Heaton-Harris, the chair of the European Parliament's sports "intergroup," said an "EU sports super-regulator would devastate British sport."
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Union sports ministers are set to consider French proposals for EU regulation of professional sports club financing later this week.
The French EU presidency is to unveil at a meeting of the ministers in Biarritz on Thursday (27 November) and Friday its plans to reform European sporting governance in a move that UK Tories are criticising as approaching a sports "super-regulator."
France is not looking for an EU sporting super-regulator, the presidency insists
Paris would like to see implemented at the European level a body modelled on France's national pro-sports regulator, the Direction Nationale du Controle de Gestion (DNCG), which oversees professional football in the country.
British Conservative MEPs say the proposals are the "culmination of a campaign by President Sarkozy" to govern the sector, noting the French leader had first announced similar plans in the European Parliament at the beginning of the French EU presidency.
UK Tory MEP Chris Heaton-Harris, the chair of the European Parliament's sports "intergroup," said an "EU sports super-regulator would devastate British sport."
