450M citizens, 23M businesses and a total worth of €14.5TN.
It’s the Single Market.
A success built in 30 years of free trade, consumer and environmental protection by:
- Developing 3,600 harmonised standards, from toy safety to packaging waste
- Enabling 9% of EU companies with e-commerce sales to do it across Europe
- Giving 3.4% of EU citizens employment in another EU country
- Looking beyond the present, promoting an EU-wide #CircularEconomy and #NetZeroIndustry
@EU_Commission Just one detail: built in almost 70 years, not in 30. If you forget the EEC and the treaty of Rome, you forget everything: without them there would be today no single market.
@EU_Commission I'd like to rejoin, please. Is there a form I can fill in?
@EU_Commission
It's not a single market. Not as long as the Americans can license a movie to be seen in France or Germany but not in Estonia or Slovakia. The US is a single market and we don't license intellectual property to Missouri but not New Hampshire.
Until the same applies to EU, don't even start about "single market".
@EU_Commission
there're are no citizens in a market, we are customers, consumers, stakeholders, we're everything, but not citizens, as long as you(we) don't decide what to do when you(we) grow up.
would you call your country a market? why calling us citizens, then?
#Europe for real, please
@EU_Commission dear #RishiSunak what version of economics did you learn at school?
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