EU taken to task over sport

European Olympic officials are meeting to try to discourage the European Union from treating some sports as big business and subjecting them to competition rules.

Football and the system of players transferring between clubs is a key area of dispute.

But sports organisations are concerned that EU competition rules could have a detrimental effect on other sporting activities.

The delegates from forty-eight members of the European Olympic Committee who are meeting in Warsaw want the EU to treat sport as a special case.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service