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European Single Market 2.0: Striving for a More Social and Environmental Market Aligned with Open Strategic Autonomy

Mehtap Akgüç, Philippe Pochet
CESifo, Munich, 2023

EconPol Forum 24 (5), 19-22
  • The internal market is at the core of the European project and has had different phases and objectives supported by different coalitions of actors
  • It is time to reinvent this project and prepare for an internal market 2.0 capable of confronting the new challenges – be they climatic or geopolitical
  • This project should revolve around three axes: the dual transitions and in particular the environmen-tal one, the social dimension, and the geopolitical (strategic autonomy)
  • Even if difficult it could be possible to find a new coalition of actors and a new European social pact to support this