A Long Road to an Ambitious Goal: the Digital Single Market

Summary:

The concept of a European Single Market without trade barriers has had a lasting impact on key product and service markets, stimulating legislative competition between Member States (often leading to a liberalisation of once rigid regulations), bringing forth transnational economic competition and innovation. Meanwhile, European telecom markets, still dominated by former national monopolies, are strikingly segregated, at least at the commonly visible end-user level.