For a new relaunch of the single market

While the relaunch of the European single market is on the EU agenda, Jacques Delors, the initiator of the “Objective 1992”, gives his view on the current situation and on the perspectives for this major project.

Already countenanced in the Treaty of Rome, the actual implementation of the “single market” was the only major project in the 1980s that attracted broad support both from the Member States and from the European parliamentarians. It is worthwhile reviewing the current situation and the future prospects of this project at a time when important decisions need to be taken in order to give it fresh impetus in what is a difficult economic, social and political context.