IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/b/wfo/wstudy/71613.html
   My bibliography  Save this book

The Future of the EU Single Market Report – a Critical Review. Brief Study

Author

Listed:
  • Atanas Pekanov

    (WIFO)

Abstract

The Letta Report on the future of the single market is a rich combination of policy proposals and ideas, revolving around the main idea that the EU Single Market needs a renewal. This brief study analyses briefly some of the main proposals of the paper through their economic, political and electoral feasibility and relevance. As correctly identified by the report, a stronger EU Single Market indeed requires better regulatory frameworks and reducing fragmentation, especially in strategic areas such as infrastructure, energy, transport and defence. This requires additional coordination at the EU level, as well as mobilising significant funding, both private and public. Consolidations in the specific economic sectors proposed in the report – telecoms, energy and finance, can raise difficult trade-offs. The fifth freedom to enhance education, research and innovation in the EU is a welcome one, but resembles more a public good and will be politically difficult to explain and obtain.

Suggested Citation

  • Atanas Pekanov, 2024. "The Future of the EU Single Market Report – a Critical Review. Brief Study," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 71613, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:wfo:wstudy:71613
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.wifo.ac.at/wwa/pubid/71613
    File Function: abstract
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wfo:wstudy:71613. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Florian Mayr (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/wifooat.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.