Abstract
The 1986 Single European Act introduced 286 proposals designed to remove the physical, technical and fiscal barriers between EC member states. Its purpose is to take the Community towards a full common market through the completion of economic and monetary union. Abolishing the barriers to free movement of persons, services and capital will enable Europe to trade as one block in the world market, and compete with large and economically powerful countries like the USA and Japan. The Single European Act also recognised that economic and social cohesion would be strengthened by the completion of the internal market. But what is meant by economic and social cohesion and who is likely to benefit from it? .
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© 1992 Jane Pillinger
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Pillinger, J. (1992). Women and the Single European Market. In: Feminising the Market. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13281-2_3
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