19. The Single Market

2020 ◽  
pp. 360-378
Author(s):  
Simon Bulmer ◽  
Owen Parker ◽  
Ian Bache ◽  
Stephen George ◽  
Charlotte Burns
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Internal Market ◽  
Single Market ◽  
European Market ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
The Core ◽  
Single European Market ◽  
Recent Policy ◽  
The Eu

This chapter examines the European Union’s (EU’s) original decision to create a single market and the moves to complete the internal market—what became known as the single market programme—in the 1980s. The economic ideal of a common or single European market lies at the core of the EU. The decision to institute a drive to achieve a single internal market by the end of 1992 played a key role in the revival of European integration. The chapter first traces the development of internal market policy before discussing the record of implementation beyond 1992. It then considers recent policy developments in relation to the single market in the context of the Barroso (2005–14) and Juncker (2014–19) Commission presidencies. It also reviews the academic literature on the single market, focusing on the main explanations for its development and some key ideological or normative perspectives on its consequences, including political economy critiques.

20. The Single Market

2014 ◽  
pp. 367-384
Author(s):  
Ian Bache ◽  
Simon Bulmer ◽  
Stephen George ◽  
Owen Parker
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Internal Market ◽  
Single Market ◽  
European Market ◽  
Eurozone Crisis ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
The Core ◽  
Single European Market ◽  
Recent Policy ◽  
The Eu

This chapter examines the European Union’s original decision to create a single market and the moves to complete the internal market — what became known as the single market programme — in the 1980s. The economic ideal of a common or single European market lies at the core of the EU. The decision to institute a drive to achieve a single internal market by the end of 1992 played a key role in the revival of European integration. The chapter first traces the development of internal-market policy before discussing the record of implementation beyond 1992. It then considers recent policy developments in relation to the single market in the context of the eurozone crisis which began in 2009. It also reviews the academic literature on the single market, focusing on the main explanations for its development and some key ideological or normative perspectives on its consequences.

Die steuerliche Integration des Europäischen Binnenmarktes durch Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob Billau
Keyword(s):  
Case Law ◽  
European Market ◽  
Tax Law ◽  
Double Taxation ◽  
The Core ◽  
European Single Market ◽  
Viable Solution ◽  
Single European Market ◽  
Fundamental Freedoms ◽  
The Eu

The author offers a way to eliminate harmful double taxation within the Single European Market. Although the Single European Market has been the central core of the European unification, its completion has yet to be achieved. Particularly, double taxation between the Member States of the EU is an enduring problem without any viable solution in sight. The ECJ holds in settled case law that the fundamental freedoms comprise no ban of genuine juridical double taxation. The author examines art. 293 2nd dent EC as a possible solution. This article opens the instruments of international tax law for purposes of European tax law. The analysis concludes that the article comprises a commitment to eliminate double taxation within the European Single Market by using double tax treaties. The core of this article is drafted into a directive, transferring the analysis into current law. The author is a lawyer and a certified tax advisor in Stuttgart, Germany.

scholarly journals Poland in the single European market—changes in the similarity of import and export structures in comparison with the EU-10 countries in 2004–2017

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-30
Author(s):  
Edward Molendowski ◽  
Wojciech Polan
Keyword(s):  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Single Market ◽  
European Market ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eastern Enlargement ◽  
Member States ◽  
New Member States ◽  
Single European Market ◽  
Import And Export ◽  
The Eu

Abstract It is a common knowledge that the eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) was an extremely important undertaking for both the New Member States (EU-10) and the “old Union” countries (EU-15). One of the most important effects was significant acceleration of the development of mutual trade links, including changes in their commodity structure. In the study presented in this article, we attempted to verify the hypothesis whether, as a consequence of the eastern enlargement, the EU-10 and EU-15 markets were increasingly treated by the exporters and importers from Poland as a single market. In analyzing changes in the similarity of import and export structures, we calculated “Euclidean distance” (in 2004–2017), the measure based on absolute differences of individual structure indices. We compared the results for Poland with the other New Member States operating on the single European market. We found that for more than a dozen years Polish exporters and importers have contributed to the increasing similarity of the structures of their respective countries’ trade and the EU patterns mostly shaped by the EU-15. The results reflect the ongoing unification of the foreign trade system and its arrangement toward the recognition of both areas as a single market.

Title XII Education, Vocational Training, Youth and Sport

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sacha Garben
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Laws And Regulations

Title XII deals with EU competences in the fields of education, vocational training, youth, and sport. According to Article 6 TFEU, these four areas qualify among those where the EU has the power to ‘support, coordinate or supplement the actions of the Member States’, meaning that the EU’s role is limited to a secondary one and that harmonization of national laws and regulations is excluded. As we shall see, however, this has not prevented a significant amount of European integration taking place in these very areas that are often considered to belong to the core tasks of the nation state.

Part I Rationales for State Aid Rules, 2 Evolution of Aid in the EU: Classifying Different Types of Countries, and the Financial and Economic Crisis

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kreuschitz Viktor ◽  
Nehl Hanns Peter
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Aggregate Data ◽  
European Market ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Single European Market ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Eu

This chapter examines the evolution of (non-crisis) aid in the EU-27 since 1992, which serves as a basis to assess the similarities and differences between the practices of granting aid in EU Member States. Aggregate data for the EU-27 as a whole suggests that Member States have given a smaller percentage of their GDP as aid over time, which might be regarded as reflective of the view that they are accepting the need for its reduction and its control in the single European market. While declining in the first half of the 1990s, aid levels peaked in 1997, only to be reduced by 1999. This can be explained based on the new regulations that were pursued during the time period, which resulted in broader definitions by the Commission and tighter control.

The Formation of the Single European Market and the Economic Activities of Non-European Firms: A Case of Japanese Automotive Industry in Europe

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-244
Author(s):  
Jae Hoon Hyun
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
European Market ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Specific Instance ◽  
Bilateral Relationship ◽  
Single European Market ◽  
Strategic Reactions ◽  
The Eu

This article investigates the development of the Single European Market and its effects on the activities of non-European firms with particular reference to the specific instance of the Japanese automotive industry in trading experience with the EU. This study argues the likely bilateral relationship between institutional development of the EU and possible external consequences on non-European multinational firms that strategic reactions agitated by the perception of trade prospects might affect firms to engage in off-shore transplants to acquire export-platform for the existing markets previously served. In addition, transplants without appropriate localization could result in the issue of local content while firms within the region might be able to experience market presence effects.

scholarly journals Euroscepticism – a today’s issue with tomorrow consequences

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raluca Buturoiu
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
European Integration ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
The Core ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
The Eu

<p>The European Union is dominated by permanent change and diversity so that public opinion regarding different EU-related issues follows a similar trend. Within this continually changing context, there are two important interconnected things to be considered: first, public opinion towards the EU represents the core of political and academic debates over the present and future of the European integration. Second, the favorable attitudes and opinions towards the EU have increasingly changed into disapproving or sceptic attitudes in the last years. Although there are studies on Eurosceptic attitudes and their causes in almost all EU member states, only a few of them offer a clear overview of this issue. The present paper addresses four questions: What is actually Euroscepticism?; What are the faces of Euroscepticism in the EU as a whole?; How prominent are Eurosceptic attitudes in Romania?; Where do we go from here? The aim of this paper is to examine the theoretical foundations of Euroscepticism and to provide insightful information to be used in future studies.</p>

scholarly journals The role of the Single Euro Payments Area for the potential single European market

Equilibrium ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-75
Author(s):  
Anna Pyka
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Payment System ◽  
Single Market ◽  
European Market ◽  
Consumer Law ◽  
Single European Market ◽  
Local Solutions ◽  
The Creation

The creation of Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) is the next stage of economic integration of Europe connected with clearings and payments area. The idea behind the activities within SEPA programme is the introduction of mechanisms for effective Euro payments in Europe and treatment of this area as a single market with all the consequences to do with the time of transaction and charges occurring. According to SEPA, different local solutions will be replaced by a common payment system and unified standards regulated by homogenous consumer law. This in turn shall bring in the following effects: easy, fast, safe and cheap payments for the whole European market. This article shows the conditions of implementation of SEPA programme and the consequences stemming from the single payments area.

Theorising the EU in crisis: de-Europeanisation as disintegration

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Rosamond
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Real World ◽  
Past Experience ◽  
The Past ◽  
Perfect Storm ◽  
Eu Studies ◽  
The Eu

The current 'perfect storm' of European crises seems to provide evidence that the EU is suffering from severe tensions that could reverse many of the key integration gains of the past seven decades. The presence of apparently existential threats to the EU has provoked calls to theorise 'disintegration'. This presumes, first and foremost, that scholarship is lagging behind urgent real world developments. It could also be argued that any attempt to theorise integration should by definition be capable of theorising disintegration. EU studies scholarship has tended, in recent years, to shy away from the analysis of integration, developing instead a range of subliteratures that together presume institutional and systemic resilience. The paper makes three broad arguments. First, it notes that any return to the analysis of integration/disintegration presents a risk for scholarship, namely the fallacy of sampling from past experience to project future probabilities. Second, it demonstrates that earlier neofunctionalist scholarship had, in fact, developed quite sophisticated accounts of disintegration, which, in turn illustrated the importance of understanding the key role played by political economy and sociological dynamics in European integration. Finally, the paper explores the ways in which extant scholarly knowledge about the EU may inhibit the development of robust policy understanding of potentially disintegrative dynamics.

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