Publications (Filter: Single Market)
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Cloud Sovereignty and the Single Market: A Better Understanding of Government Procurement and National Cloud Technology Preferences
Europe is right to pursue better digital sovereignty, but the ambition is marked by a conceptual ambiguity. “Sovereignty” is often used to...
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Reinventing Europe’s Single Market: A Way Forward to Align Ideals and Action
It is essential for EU institutions and Member State governments to shift their focus from the abstract concept of the "Single Market" to the...
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What is Wrong with Europe’s Shattered Single Market? – Lessons from Policy Fragmentation and Misdirected Approaches to EU Competition Policy
By: Matthias BauerWhat is wrong with Europe’s Single Market? The brief answer to that question is that it does not really exist – it is unsingle. The Single...
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Discrimination, Exclusion and Environmental Harm: Why EU Lawmakers Need to Ban Freight Transport Restrictions to Save the Single Market
By: Matthias BauerThe EU’s Mobility Package 1 legislative proposal was once intended to improve the working conditions of truck and small-van drivers in the EU....
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The Cost of Non-Schengen for the Single Market
By: Hanna DeringerA suspension of the Schengen Agreement would damage the European economy, in particular by undermining the European single market. And it would not...
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Who Reforms for Higher Productivity?
With weak European growth performance over a longer period of time, it is time to push reforms raising the rate of productivity growth. The EU’s...
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What is Wrong with the Single Market?
By: Fredrik ErixonEurope’s Single Market is in many ways an illusion – it exists only nominally. There are substantial barriers to cross-border exchange and the...
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Is E-commerce Really the Threat to European Way of Life – or did Domestic Populism Trump the Single Market?
Last week, France introduced a controversial law specifically designed to cripple Amazon to support physical bookstores. Italy is about to force...
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A Fibre-Rich Diet for Europe: Is the EU’s Next Generation Access Strategy Compromising on Competition?
Given the unsatisfactory deployment of fibre based Next Generation Access (NGAs) networks in the EU, the European Commission proposes in a draft...
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Has the EU’s Single Market Program led to Deeper Integration of EU Services Markets?
This paper empirically evaluates whether the EU’s Single Market Program has led to deeper integration of EU services markets. It adopts a...
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The Rome Treaty at 50
Tags: Common Agricultural Policy EU Europe GATT integration services Single Market trade trade in goods WTOIn March, 2007, the Treaty of Rome celebrates its 50th anniversary. The chief lesson from this remarkable period of European cooperation is the...
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