This paper reviews the growth effect of one of the most far-reaching steps of the European integration process, the creation of the European single market.

This study summarises and analyses the Directives and Regulations in the harmonised and non-harmonised areas of the free movement of goods, adopted during the 7th and 8th electoral periods of the European Parliament (2009–2019). It will also highlight the rights that businesses and citizens enjoy under the current legislation, and ways in which the legislation could be improved.

This study summarizes the current literature on the economic benefits of the free movement of goods in the EU single market.

A quantitative model-based assessment of the benefits of the Single Market in goods and services.

Over the years, European value chains have become increasingly relevant to employment in the EU. This study tries to fill this gap by quantifying the number of employees dependent on the exports of services to other member states. It especially examines the contribution of cross-border services to a productive competition and to economic and social cohesion within the European Union using established statistic tools.

The study surveys generic economic impact studies on services in the single market, summarizes the achievements of the EU legislator in the single services market in the period 2010-2018 as well as the principal non-legislative initiatives, discusses the estimated economic benefits of those achievements up to 2018 and attempts to identify the potential for further economic benefits in the near future. Suggestions for continued and new initiatives for the single services market are provided.

This paper presents the progress made by the EU institutions on the implementation of the set of actions known as the single market act I and the single market act II and published by the European Commission in April 2011 and October 2012.