EU, in theory a single market: it has an antitrust arm but so do its member states.
And those EU rules deliberately push companies into treating the Single Market as a single market.
Their benefits will be fully felt only if the region creates a single market.
The European Union has this idea that the 27 countries should be a single market.
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Having successfully adopted a single market, the European Union is now taking on a single currency.
The single currency notwithstanding, when it comes to investments Europe is anything but a single market.
Providing a single market for business is, after all, one of the reasons the EU was formed.
Up until now, national governments, encouraged by their big energy companies, have blocked a single market in energy.
There has been less progress in creating a single market in financial services, which remains some way off.
Even the largest businesses, like Flipkart, had to start by cornering a single market, as in their case books.
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Europe is a distant third because it is not yet a single market.
Treating the EU as a single market, using just the one corporate location to service all of their customers.
That a corporation should treat the EU as just that, a single market.
And, of course, the U.S. is the living example of what a single market can provide in terms of growth.
Focusing on a single market endangers future expansion because other businesses can lock down neighboring markets before you get there.
Focusing on a single market segment may require you to swallow hard if your opening bid for mass-market appeal went thud.
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The mergers are also the fruit of the many legal moves taken by the European Union to create a 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.
Mr Rossel is having trouble, for example, getting members of the Urals Economic Association to stick to the idea of a single market.
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France is meant to be at the centre of a single market that depends on the freedom of movement of goods and people.
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The European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee has made repeated calls for new laws, as a way of creating a single market for intellectual property.
In fact, the lack of a single market in money is a serious blockage in the economy that can have a direct effect on companies.
The most successful commission presidents have interpreted this right of initiative very broadly, pushing such ambitious ideas as a single market and a single currency.
As he explains, the EU is not a single market in the same way that the U.S. is, and the travel patterns on both sides of the Atlantic are different.
When it last took in poor countries (Spain and Portugal in 1986), the European Community, as it was then called, was not a single market for goods, services, labour and capital.
Myanmar will claim Asean's rotating chairmanship next year, which means it will organize and host meetings of diplomats working to achieve the bloc's goals to create a single market and ensure stable politics in the region.
It is still small, but oDesk shows how globalisation and innovation in information technology, the two big trends that have been under way for some time, are moving the world nearer to a single market for labour.
But despite having shared a single market with one currency for nearly a decade, the euro zone has never established the polticial and regulatory integration that would allow it to face a crisis of such proportions as one.
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