Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Preface
- A reader’s guide
- Abbreviations
- 1 General introduction
- Part I EU history, institutions and legal dimension
- Part II EU market integration
- Part III EU monetary integration
- Part IV The single European market
- Part V EU budget and structural policies
- Part VI EU external relations
- Part VII The future of the EU
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Index
Part IV - The single European market
policy integration
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Preface
- A reader’s guide
- Abbreviations
- 1 General introduction
- Part I EU history, institutions and legal dimension
- Part II EU market integration
- Part III EU monetary integration
- Part IV The single European market
- Part V EU budget and structural policies
- Part VI EU external relations
- Part VII The future of the EU
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Index
Summary
The single European market:
Part IV of the book covers areas that constitute the very foundations needed to facilitate a properly operating Single European Market (SEM). Hence it tackles in six chapters: competition rules; industrial and competitiveness policy; tax harmonization; transport policy; energy policy; and environmental policy. Industrial policy is included because variations in it would be tantamount to affording differing protection to national domestic industry. The absence of tax harmonization would have consequences equivalent to those of disparate industrial policies. Similar considerations apply to transport, energy and the environment. Of course, transport and energy are also dealt with as industries in their own right, as well as providers of social services, and the environment is treated in terms of tackling pollution and the consequent health benefits.
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- The European UnionEconomics and Policies, pp. 195 - 196Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011