The road map to a single internal market – assumptions or reality? Cover Image

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The road map to a single internal market – assumptions or reality?

Author(s): Joanna Stefaniak, Joanna Kuczewska
Subject(s): Supranational / Global Economy
Published by: Instytut Zachodni im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego
Keywords: European Commission; single market development strategy; intensification of agriculture

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary economic problems, institutional transformation, subsequent enlargements, counteracting the effects of economic and euro area crisis are factors that have contributed to limiting the EU’s activity in developing a single market. In 2015 the European Commission presented a new strategy for strengthening the internal market which is to raise the effectiveness of its functioning. The aim of the article is to assess the progress in accomplishing the priorities formulated in the strategic documents of the internal market. The discussion focuses on issues related to the question whether programmes and measures aimed at strengthening the potential of the internal market have actually been implemented. When assessing the rate of the process of implementation of internal market strategy over a span of thirty years it can be concluded that it is the effect of factors that arise both on the part of the EU institutions and particular member states. Considering the experience of the EU so far in implementing specific strategies to enhancethe realization of an internal market it can be supposed that in light of the current social-political-economic events the very ambitious and comprehensive premises of the present single market development strategy will not be fully realized in the assumed time frame.

  • Issue Year: 363/2017
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 247-260
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English, Polish