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EU Watchdog Radio

Episode 44: 30 years of EU Single Market

EU Watchdog Radio

Corporate Europe Observatory and Counter Balance

News, Politics

51 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this new episode of the podcast EU Watchdog Radio, Joana Louçã talks to economist and trade unionist Frank Ey, and to Olivier Hoedeman and Moritz Neujeffski, co-authors of CEO's latest report: 30 Years of EU Single Market: Time to remove the obstacles to social-ecological transformation.This year marks the 30th anniversary of the creation of EU's Single Market, and to mark it, we have just launched a new report (and a board game!) showing how corporate interests have used Single Market rul...

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0:00.0

The biggest celebrations are done by the companies and corporations representatives,

0:08.0

but certainly not of Labour representatives.

0:14.0

It's really important that the Commission becomes much more transparent about these processes.

0:27.5

Several previous Commission ministers to achieve this form of new heavy deregulation,

0:31.3

they failed after protest from trade unions and social society.

0:35.0

So I think that that would be an important aim to replicate that.

0:42.5

You're listening to EU Watchdog Radio.

0:49.5

Hi, welcome. I'm Joanna Lossan, Com's officer at Corporate Europe Observatory or CEO.

0:55.7

In this episode of EU Watchdog Radio, I will talk to economists and trade unionists,

1:02.5

Frank I, and to Olivia Huderman and Moritz-Noyevsky, co-authors of CEO's latest report called 30 Years of EU Single Market, How to Remove the Obstacles to Social Ecological Transformation.

1:10.1

Let's start at the beginning.

1:11.6

What is the single market?

1:13.5

The single market is a lot of things.

1:15.8

It's the freedom of movements, the freedom to trade, freedom to invest.

1:25.5

And there's these four freedoms.

1:28.5

Some of it is positive for,

1:31.5

and something that gives people rights,

1:34.0

for example, being able to cross the borders

1:37.7

into another new country without a passport

1:39.8

or work abroad.

1:42.0

And I guess it's a good thing that organic fruits and vegetables from

1:48.1

other EU countries can be sold in our shops and without tariffs and restrictions

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