EUROPEAN UNION INTERNAL MARKET AND ITS BARRIERS: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED OR NEVER ENDING STORY?
EUROPEAN UNION INTERNAL MARKET AND ITS BARRIERS: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED OR NEVER ENDING STORY?

Summary/Abstract: This article refers to the progress and limitations of the European Union Internal Market atpresent. More than thirty years after the Single European Act, sixty years after the Treaties of Rome,in relation to a questionable future widening and deepening of integration in the European Union, andgiven the still unclear current conditions and consequences of Brexit, as well as facing the ongoingmigration movements, the internal market is also today a current public policy, economic, social andreal-life issue. A lot of progress towards a functioning internal market has been reached, but stillunsolved issues, obstacles and barriers limiting the potential of a market consisting of all EU MemberStates remain. A precondition to mitigate and remove obstacles is the identification of barriers to theentire European Union Internal Market and in particular their specification to the free movement ofgoods, services, capital and persons. This article aims to provide a very complex view onto theEuropean Union Internal Market and onto the currently most manifesting barriers of the EuropeanUnion Internal Market and of the barriers within the economic freedoms.

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