The Single Market and European integration

2017 ◽  
pp. 179-189
Author(s):  
Gavin Mccrone ◽  
Mark Stephens
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Single Market

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.

Enveloping Europe: Plans and Practices in Postal Governance, 1929–1959

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
LÉONARD LABORIE
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
European Integration ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Single Market ◽  
Telecommunication Sector ◽  
European Conference ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
The 1950S

This article sets out why and how plans to build Europe on mail, both commercially (rates) and symbolically (stamps), were discussed from the end of the 1920s and have failed up to today. The European Conference of Postal and Telecommunication Administrations (CEPT) was created during the intense phase of European integration in the 1950s. In the 1980s it was a key resource for the European Commission for building a Single Market in the telecommunication sector. As this article argues, however, the CEPT did not emerge from the multiple plans for postal integration. Rather, it was a new envelope hiding governance practices inherited from the nineteenth century.

scholarly journals European Politics and the Neoliberal Paradigm

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Sliwinski
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Single Market ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Economic Elites ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
Integration Project

This paper looks at the European integration project in its current iteration drawing on Karl Polanyi’s assertion that markets are inseparable from the socio-cultural context. In this regard, all attempts to liberalise the economy (not excluding European integration, which is based on the principle of the single market) have practical and indeed tangible political ramifications. The main hypothesis of the paper lies in the recognition of the fact that the neoliberal agenda is one of the defining features of European integration. It is after all, the project of the single market, with its free movement of goods, services, capital, and labour that underpins European Union integrative practice.Secondly, it is the presupposition of this paper, that there is a certain degree of congruence between the economic elites, operating within the neoliberal framework, and the centre-left political elites. The argument here is that the logic of neoliberalism has been fundamentally accepted across the mainstream of the political spectrum. This consequently means that even left-wing parties have had to reposition themselves both ideologically and practically, which brings the conclusion that the market has lost its role as the basic ideological differentiator between the traditional right and left. The axis of political debate has consequently shifted to moral issues such as the relationship between the state and the church, immigration, and gender.

scholarly journals Digital Single Market and coordination of social security systems – interoperability solutions at the service of social protection

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
Sophie Perez Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Specific Area ◽  
Single Market ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
High Quality

One of the fundamental pillars to the full achievement of the Digital Single Market is the development of eGovernment/e-administration. As a key priority of the current moment of the European integration process, the implementation of the Digital Single Market has the potential to lay down the foundations for a public administration capable of providing crossborder mobility in the Single Market of the Union by means of high quality, interoperable and digital public services. To exemplify the characteristics outlined for the configuration of a public administration of the Digital Single Market, we will seek to give concrete form to the model that is emerging in a specific area of EU law which has critical importance for the European integration process – the coordination of social security systems. Its consideration allows us to test the implementation of the Digital Single Market in the public sector through digital, interoperable, and high-quality cross-border public administration.

scholarly journals More than just a Single Market: European integration, peace and security in the 1980s

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Piers Ludlow
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
European Integration ◽  
European Community ◽  
Single Market ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
German Unification ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
The Core ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
East West

Economics was central to Europe’s problems in the early 1980s and its successes after 1985. But to view the European Community solely in this manner disregards the enduring importance of the quest for European peace. European leaders used the integration process as a mechanism to influence East–West relations and the Middle East. Peace rhetoric and symbolism sustained the core Franco-German partnership. European integration was crucial to the continent’s ability to peacefully absorb a huge shock in the form of German unification. And the Community’s role in exporting democracy, first to southern Europe, then to Eastern Europe, confirmed that integration was about more than just the Single Market.

2. The European Union: Establishment and Development

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Phinnemore
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Single Market ◽  
First Century ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Amsterdam Treaty ◽  
Adoption And Implementation ◽  
Single European Act ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Eu

This chapter focuses on the emergence of the European Communities in the 1950s that gave rise to the European Union in the 1990s. It begins with a discussion of key developments in the first four decades of European integration and some of the tensions that have shaped them. It then considers how the idea of ‘European union’ lost momentum in the 1970s but was revived in the 1980s with the Single European Act (1986) and the Single Market project. It also shows how the EU was established through ‘Maastricht’ and the adoption and implementation of the Treaty on European Union (1992). The chapter concludes by analysing how the new ‘union’ was affected by reforms introduced by the Amsterdam Treaty (1997) and the Nice Treaty (2000) as the EU sought to prepare itself for the further enlargement and the challenges of the initial years of the twenty-first century.

European Integration from a Single to a Digital Single Market

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-350
Author(s):  
Darko Samardžić ◽  
Tobias Fischer
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Single Market

The Role of the European Parliament in the Single Market Programme: The Cost of Non-Europe and the Car Emission Directive (1983-89)

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-36
Author(s):  
Laurent WARLOUZET
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Single Market ◽  
European Policy ◽  
Economic Concept ◽  
The Cost

The Single Market has been at the heart of European integration for more than three decades, as the recent Brexit negotiations exemplifies. However, the role of the European Parliament in the origins and the first years of implementation of the Single Market programme has been neglected, whereas it was important in two respects. First, as early as 1983 the European Parliament contributed to intellectual mobilisation efforts in advance of the programme’s adoption by developing the notion of the “cost of non-Europe”, an economic concept which materialized the tangible benefits of the Single Market Programme, instead of framing this endeavour as simply another European policy among others. Michel Albert was instrumental in this debate. Second, the European Parliament was active after the Single Act was signed in 1986 by adopting and influencing legislation to concretely implement this ambitious programme, as the example of the 1989 car emission directive demonstrates. Here the role of Carlo Ripa di Meana was of particular importance.

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