- bien malin qui saurait, en comparant nos Etats membres, établir un lien quelconque de cause à effet entre le poids relatif du secteur public et la qualité des prestations offertes dans le cadre du service public. - une autre équation, souvent mise en avant, à savoir celle qui identifie le service public au monopole d'Etat doit être, elle aussi, sérieusement mise à l'épreuve des faits.
For instance: - the equation "public service = public enterprise" does not correspond to any tangible reality; - on the basis of a comparison of the situation in our Member States, it would take a particularly gifted observer to establish a cause- and-effect relationship between the relative size of the public sector and the quality of performance of public services; - another equation often put forward - the identification of public service with state monopoly - has also been severely shaken by reality.