Five Freedoms Project
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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
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Five Freedoms Project Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: 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
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Five Freedoms Project Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: 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 Next Steps for the Digital Single Market: From Where do We Start?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Five Freedoms ProjectDigitization has been a boon to the European economy. However, the Digital Single Market remains an aspiration rather than a reality, and European...
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Digital Investments, Data and Growth in Europe: A Framework for Analysis
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Five Freedoms ProjectEven if there is a connection between information and communication technology (ICT) and growth in the European economy has been understood, specific...
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The Cost of Non-Schengen for the Single Market
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Five Freedoms Project Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: 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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What is Wrong with the Single Market?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Five Freedoms Project Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: 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...