Britain’s leaving the EU but wants to remain within the tangible goods custom union. But trade in products is becoming less important. What matters is more European investment in physical and social infrastructure In July, the UK government agreed its…
Tag: Single Market
It’s capital not labour that should be controlled after Brexit
People should be free to move to improve their lives, but the practical objections are substantial. The majority live in countries with GDP per capita lower than the global average. In most, infrastructure and essential health and education services are…
Single market myths
The debate about Britain’s future outside the EU is focussing on the single market and the implications of the UK leaving it. The single market is probably the least understood element of the EU convergence programme. The customs union –…
Why Stalin would have loved the Single Market
The Single Market is emerging as the key issuing facing UK decision-makers following Britain’s decisive vote in June to leave the EU. It’s something that both the government and Britain’s main opposition Labour Party insist they do not want to…
IMF questions European labour migration
A report by the IMF about the movement of 18m from central and eastern Europe to western Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990 says it has negatively affected the economies of the countries from which the…
Economics and the EU Single Market
The Single Market is at the heart of the EU project. According to European Commission, the bureaucracy that administers EU law and regulations, the Single Market “… refers to the EU as one territory without any internal borders or other…