30 years of the European single market: Research

A selection of research on the 25th anniversary

Special issue: Celebrating 25 years of the EU single market

Christos Genakos (Editor); Michael Pollitt (Editor). In: Review of Industrial Organization ; 2019, Vol. 55; No. 1; August 2019, (9 articles).

This special issue on the European Union (EU) single market is by necessity selective and focused more on regulation and product markets; but it provides an interesting retrospective in some key sectors of any modern economy, and it will ignite interest for similar analyses from other perspectives of this unique experiment.
The European single market at 25

Elisabeth Bublitz. In: Intereconomics, 2018, vol. 53, no. 6, page 337–342.

This article discusses different legal acts that are being negotiated and outlines suggestions for improvement.
25 years of single market: Making the myth a reality

Politico website, 2018 (accessed 11 August 2022).

The Politico event on 18th September 2018 brought together European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager and Mario Monti for a joint interview on the challenges and opportunities of the single market.
The single European market 25 years on

Celia Ruiz Alfonsea. In: BBVA blogpost, 2018 (accessed 11 August 2022).
An EU New Year’s resolution: Keep boosting the single market

Malcolm Harbour, Johan Bjerkem. European Policy Center, Commentary, 2018.

The Commission’s assessment gives a masterful justification for the single market. In just 25 years of existence, the single market has become the EU's "beating heart" (if you are the emotional type) or its "best asset" (if you are a pragmatist).