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The Five Freedoms Project’ t’s Eu European Think Tank Summit: t: Which Way Forward for th the Single Market? t?

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Anna Anna Di Diamanto topoulou, , President t of DI DIKTIO

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BORDER Controls?

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! A revolutionary element of the SEA (1986) was redistr

tributi tion as part

• f the European package deal.
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Delors str trate tegy: link between internal market and redistribution.

! Delors included economic and social cohesion chapte

ter in SEA EA, and especially the Str tructu tural Funds.

! Later in Maastricht Treaty, the Cohesion

Cohesion Fund Fund was introduced.

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tructu tural Funds and Cohesion Fund: regarded as compensati tion to poorer countries for their support to the internal market program and the EMU.

! For the COM, a development

t policy addressed to regions (not countries).

! EU structural policies have had an effect on devolution,

str trength thening regions viz. national govnt

! Now Structural Funds also aligned with Lisbon/Agenda 2020

• bjectives.

! 1999 Lis

1999 Lisbon bon Ag Agen enda da (growth, knowledge based society- economy)

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! Instead of openness we have been closing borders ! Instead of social market economy we have been

going through prolonged austerity

! Populism and nationalism fuel and are fueled by

austerity and introversion

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! Better enforce existing rules before creating new ones ! Ensure concrete and consistent implementation and

application of new legislation

! When new legislation is needed, use better regulation ! Remove remaining barriers ! Address on a case-by-case basis business practices resulting

in different treatment

! Tackle remaining obstacles to free movement of services ! Facilitate the mobility of citizens, students and workers

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