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It would be a tragedy if the attempt to save the euro were to put the single market at risk. Germany would not want that either.

The euro makes it easy to compare prices across 16 countries, and the single market allows goods to move freely within the European Union.

The UK, while sceptical about certain aspects of the European project, has always been a staunch supporter of the single market.

And Greece's membership of Europe's single market makes it a more attractive proposition for foreign investors.

Its writ can trump that of national governments when the single market is thought to be at risk.

Such a protectionist measure would "run contrary to the single market and harm British interests" , the business secretary said.

Europe is now its largest single market, so it badly needs to sustain exports at a time when European demand is weak.

Some German policymakers, previously sceptical of EMU, fretted that any repeat of the crisis would be a threat to the single market.

A single market can go ahead without a monetary union, but a monetary union without a single market would be risky.

In the ensuing chaos and recrimination, the survival of the EU and its single market would be in jeopardy.

The author is president of Bocconi University and was a European commissioner for single market, tax policy and competition.

If the euro zone were to break up it would put huge pressure on the single market.

Digital firms should be able to benefit from the single market just as mobile-phone companies such as Nokia and Vodafone have.

European policymakers would be hellbent to conserve the single market rather than immolate it in the bonfire of the euros.

Today that dream has not vanished altogether, but the single market is under threat once more.

Even so, the single market is clearly not living up to its name.

Without liberal economies like Britain to resist protectionism, the single market might be endangered.

Continuing to enhance co-operation between national authorities within the single market is necessary but has proved not to be sufficient.

And the consequences would be scarily unpredictable: Europe's single market, and even the European Union itself, might be at risk.

The European Commission and its single-market directives provide plenty of political cover for Italy to push towards greater liberalisation.

Because if you fail to do so in this single market there will likely be an issue the next time you raise another fund.

If competitiveness is the aim, why not push for a more ambitious deepening of Europe's single market, particularly in services?

At a European level, there is concern over what all this means for countries' commitment to the single market.

In Brussels Mr Cameron tells the EU to beware of breaking up the single market, and stoutly defends free-trade rules that apply to all.

More frequent border checks would merely be an inconvenience, slightly gritting up the single market.

He may have briefly basked in his backbenchers' praise, but if his aim was to protect the City and the single market, he has failed.

The problem is particularly acute in Europe, where the single market's rules allow banks to do business freely across borders.

The summit concluded with common affirmation that the EU's single market was part of the solution to the economic crisis sweeping Europe.

From the earliest days of the single market, EU leaders have attempted to square this circle by presenting the project as a grand bargain.

He could not allow a "treaty within a treaty" that would undermine the UK's position in Europe's single market.

Economists reckon that the single market has increased growth, albeit by less than promised.

A few things. First, companies can no longer view China as a single market.

Another problem is that the single market is far from complete, so that competition does not even out price differences across the EU.

The survival of the European single market and of the EU itself would then be under threat.

And a more flawed single market will damage the UK's relationship with the EU.

Especially with the establishment of the European single market, the EU has greatly increased its overall competitiveness.

It shows how important the information society is to the European Community, and how it fits into the single market framework.

This does not derive from the logic of a single market, but from a need to preserve macroprudential stability.

"It would be dangerous" to emerge from the crisis having damaged Europe's single market.

At home, though, barely a voice was raised to recall that the freedom for companies to do this is enshrined in Europe's single-market laws.

"There's not a single market where you cannot get a good Labor Day deal now, except maybe the Hamptons, " Messing said.

As Kroes has repeatedly stated, the only current European single market for digital music and film is based on unlawful file-sharing.

The creation of the single market involved a huge expansion of European law and therefore deep erosions of national sovereignty.

This advice will chafe most in the European Union, where standard rules are the basis of the single market.

The collapse of the single market, which has done more than anything else to knit Europe together, would threaten the EU itself.

In 2005 America became the company's largest single market, overtaking Germany.

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) was supposed to banish the competitive devaluations that threatened the single market in the early 1990s.

Any country's departure from the euro would fuel eurosceptic sentiment, encouraging governments to disregard single market rules.

Inspired by the European model, the ASEAN region wants economic integration and a single market by 2015.

A rider to the act sketched out an ambition to complement the single market with a single currency.

We all share the single market, but otherwise coexist in a framework of flexible and variable geometry.

This means, above all, safeguarding the single market and its competition rules.

It also makes it vital for national governments to support, not undermine, Europe's single-market rules and competition policies.

But the alternative may be the collapse of not just the single currency but the single market and the whole European project.

Suppose the representative agricultural exporter makes business on a single market--the foreign market.

Along with this comes a second task: to preserve the single market, by far the EU's greatest achievement of recent years.

Had it not resisted protectionist measures in the crisis, say officials, the single market would have collapsed.

The European Union's supposed single market, which the commission polices, is fractured over the issue.

But the truth is that the EU's eastward enlargement brought globalisation inside the borders of the single market.

Indeed there are other signs that member states have fallen out of love with the single market concept.

By 2008, 70% of its goods were sold abroad, with the U. S. its largest single market.

Europe's greatest achievement is supposed to be its single market.

The single market is already under attack from several governments, as is the notion of admitting Turkey to the club.

The euro's critics forget that the single market has never co-existed with freely floating exchange rates.

When the single market was built in the late 1980s, the EU already had an exchange-rate mechanism (ERM) limiting currency movements.

The second school of thought thinks even low-cost membership of the single market is a bad deal.

Europe's single market and currency set countries in competition with each other on the basis of their economies and institutions.

We could sustain the single market, underpinned by institutions that match the integration of financial firms.

Shared interests, be it in terms of the single market or single currency, should hopefully prevail, and make the EDRM more realistic.

To that extent, the liberal argument for the single market is won.

The single market and the EU's competition and state-aid rules are under attack as national governments look for ways to protect jobs.

In 2007 it gained a little urgency, as Asean member countries vowed to establish the region as a single market and production base by 2015.

Companies such as BP wanted to see the world as a single market, but in reality national interests still predominate.

Such a zone would unite China's 1. 2bn people and south-east Asia's 500m citizens in a single market.

Some fear that saving the euro could wreck the wider EU and its single market.

Europe's single-market project was, from the outset, a trade-off between liberal and statist forces.

But, thanks to the European single market, Renault continues to do so.

A report on strengthening the single market by Mario Monti, a former EU commissioner, was issued on May 10th.

It moves the group closer to the goal of forming a single market and community similar to the European Union.

The new club's 17 members could still force through big changes to the single market if they acted as a bloc.

More Europe should not mean more Sarkozy and less single market.

Finally, there is a consensus that Europe's wobbling faith in the single market has come at a perilous moment.

A poll of 1, 000 British bosses found that 54% thought the cost of red tape outweighed the benefits of the single market.

Mr. Bishop: China is the biggest single market for the Cayenne and the Panamera.

The first table contains the transaction ID identifying a single market basket along with the product IDs.

VW calls China its "second home market" . However, the country has become by far the group's largest single market.

The more the single market fragments, the more likely is Britain to disengage from the EU.

The 27-country single market could fragment as decision-making gravitates to an inner core.

All products (ITEMID) with the same TRANSID have been bought in a single market basket.

But the "single market" remains incomplete and faces new threats.

It is also a step towards the single market that ASEAN is supposed to turn into by 2015.

The European single market brought big benefits.

On October 27th Mr Barnier unveiled 50 proposals to relaunch the single market, including the promotion of internet commerce.

It is these four freedoms which form the basis of the single market.

Today the crisis has given Europe's leaders the chance to create their own coalition for reform, focused again on the single market.

EU spokesman Olivier Bailly says it's not yet clear whether the new tax laws break single market rules.

The single market is perhaps the EU's biggest achievement.

Chinese sales are expected to surpass 300, 000 cars this year, cementing its place as Audi's largest single market.

We are approaching the 20th anniversary of the 1992 deadline for the "completion" of the EU single market.

The biggest danger is that the euro crisis will lead to a two-speed Europe that fractures the single market.

France and Germany are hostile to the Commission, partly because it harries them for breaching single market rules.

By 2008, we are also relying on spun high count yarn of a single market.

Misallocating capital may threaten Europe's single market, because national voters expect state aid to go to the defence of domestic jobs.

In addition, its businesses operate within a single market.

Formally, all 27 member states would still vote on single market rules.

The single market remains half-built.

To hundreds of millions of single market.

There are risks in heavily depending on a single market for sales growth.

The country would, as a result, probably be excluded from the single market, too.

We have a rather incomplete single market for financial services.

This could even put at risk the EU's single market.

But for Michel Barnier, the internal-market commissioner, the single market is both "more and more necessary, and less and less popular" .

Mr Cameron must now find a way to restore the UK's influence over the single market.

In the mid-1980s, the European Union committed itself to creating a single market.

Even those who are less dreamy about European unification have a vital interest in the EU's single market.

In theory there is a single market, but in practice only 13 of the European Union's 27 member states approve of online gambling.

The completion of the single market was set in train only in the 1980s and remains a work in progress.

Some have gone global, while others focus on a single market sector such as real estate or energy.

A third strategy is the riskiest: taking a big bet on a single market.

These are moves that appear to undermine the principle of Europe's single market in banking.

A single market business should focus on a story about "why to buy" from them.

Harmonisation, for example, worked well when we needed to overcome obstacles to a properly functioning single market.

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