“When the Single Market doesn’t work, business incurs unnecessary costs!”
Those words were Charlie McCreevy’s, EU Single Market Commissioner, as he opened a public hearing in Brussels in late 2006 on the future of the Single Market and how to make it complete.

The dismantling of national barriers for European business and trade has been a successful exercise according to McCreevy, but there were shortfalls, i.e. coming a long way in goods but achieving less progress in services.

Commissioner McCreevy admitted that obstacles to functioning markets were not just legal but rather based on read more