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.

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.

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.

scholarly journals THE EMBEDDEDNESS OF CORE-PERIPHERY RELATIONS IN TIME AND SPACE

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annamaria Simonazzi
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Eurozone Crisis ◽  
The Core ◽  
European Institutions ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Eu

ABSTRACT The paper applies the core-periphery approach developed by the Latin American historical-structuralist school to study the consequences of European integration on its peripheral economies. The structural causes of the Eurozone crisis are explained in terms of the divergent trajectories of interdependent economies with different productive capabilities. It is argued that, as in the 1970s, the new challenges confronting the EU - the digital transformation, new consumption patterns, reversal from globalisation to regional blocs, disenchantment with the European project - call for a radical change in the institutional and productive structures of the Eurozone. Averting the prospect of a disintegrative crisis means revising the European institutions and policies in the direction of a more egalitarian and cohesive Union.

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.

2. Federalism and European Integration

2018 ◽  
pp. 27-42
Author(s):  
R. Daniel Kelemen
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Political System ◽  
Eurozone Crisis ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Specific Policy ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Eu

Theories of federalism can provide a set of assumptions, concepts, and arguments that shed light on many aspects of European integration. Applying the federalism perspective opens up EU scholars to a range of relevant comparative cases that provide analytic leverage and insight on the EU. This perspective also enables EU scholars to draw on and contribute to a well-established literature in comparative politics, thus connecting their findings about the EU to broader academic debates. EU scholars have applied theories of federalism to help explain a wide range of questions about European integration, from general questions about why and how the EU came together as a political system to narrow questions about very specific policy areas, to the causes and consequences of the EU’s recent crises. This chapter discusses the main assumptions, concepts, and methodologies in federalism theories of the EU, and explores how this perspective can shed light on the eurozone crisis and the crisis of democratic backsliding among EU member states.

scholarly journals Differentiated Integration and Disintegration in the EU: Brexit, the Eurozone Crisis, and Other Troubles

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 489-507
Author(s):  
Menelaos Markakis
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Inner Core ◽  
Outer Core ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Eurozone Crisis ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Differentiated Integration ◽  
The Eu

Abstract This article looks at theories of differentiated integration and disintegration in the wake of the Eurozone crisis and the Brexit referendum. It advances four distinct, albeit interrelated, arguments with respect to these proposals. First, it could be contested whether certain policy areas should be pushed to the ‘outer core’ of European integration. Second, it would be very difficult to disentangle those areas to be pushed to the ‘outer core’ from those areas remaining in the ‘inner core’. Third, the legal and institutional arrangements for organizing differentiated integration are equally important. Fourth, even if the problems adumbrated above could be addressed satisfactorily, the emerging arrangements for differentiated integration would differ little from the degree of flexibility or variation that already exists within some of those areas. Brexit may be viewed as an opportunity for reform to ‘fix’ those issues that are regarded as problematic in the design or functioning of the EU. Should it appear desirable to pursue differentiated integration, the better course of action would be to build on those opportunities for differentiated integration that are offered by the EU Treaties. Any forthcoming Treaty revision to take stock of Brexit could be used to give added impetus to differentiated integration.

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.

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