The internal market for services, which are estimated to account for 60 to 70 per cent of economic activity in the European Union, is still rife with legal and administrative barriers to cross-border trade. The problems involved in integrating national services markets into one large internal market are highlighted by the ongoing fierce controversy over the Commission’s proposed services directive. The following contributions discuss some pertinent issues.
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*The article is based in part on a paper prepared for the World Trade Forum 2004 in Berne (“The Single Undertaking After Cancun: Diversity and Variable Geometry in the World Trading System”). All references in the following are to the European Communities, reflecting its membership status in the WTO, rather than to the European Union. The views expressed are those of the author and cannot be attributed to the WTO Secretariat.
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Patrick A. Messerlin, Director, Groupe d’Economie Mondiale, Paris, France.., Anders Sejerøe, Christian Jervelund, Patrik Svensson and Claus Kastberg Nielsen, Copenhagen Economics, Copenhagen, Denmark.., Wernhard Möschel, Professor of Law, University of Tuebingen, former Chairman of the German Monopolies Commission and of the Scientific Advisory Board to the Ministry of Economics and Labour, Berlin, Germany.. et al. Liberalising Services Trade in the EU. Intereconomics 40, 120–140 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-005-0144-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-005-0144-5