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What Strategy for a Genuine Single Market?
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What Strategy for a Genuine Single Market?

CEPS, 2016

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Editorial Rating

7

Qualities

  • Analytical
  • Scientific
  • Background

Recommendation

Since the 1980s, the single market in Europe has progressed unevenly, with a long trail of false turns and ill-considered efforts cutting across national boundaries and political and cultural systems. Professor Jacques Pelkmans presents a sober assessment of the work needed to create a true single European market. Despite its often dry and turgid style, this in-depth report offers valuable insights. getAbstract recommends this timely analysis to policy makers with an advanced understanding of the issues and challenges surrounding the creation of a true European single market.

Take-Aways

  • A true single market would Europeanize all products, services, labor, capital, knowledge and technology, allowing unfettered cross-border movement within the European Union.
  • A single market constitutes a shared good that would benefit everyone in the EU and would underpin GDP growth of 5% to 8%.
  • To move toward a true single market, the EU, its member states and its citizens need to take 10 critical actions.

About the Author

Jacques Pelkmans, a professor at the College of Europe, is a senior fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies.