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From One Single Market to Another: European Integration, Australasian Ambivalence and Construction of the Trans-Tasman Single Economic Market

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Abstract

Over 30 years Australian and New Zealand policy makers constructed a Trans-Tasman Single Economic Market that, like the Single European Market, removed administrative barriers to the free movement of goods, services, capital and people. Europeans have taken no notice of this other case of ‘deep’ economic integration. Yet European integration has had both direct and indirect effects on trans-Tasman developments. Australasian policymakers looked to Europe for ‘lessons’, but adapted them to suit local conditions.

This chapter provides two case studies that demonstrate how Australasian policy makers adapted European ideas and practices for local use. It shows both the influence of European ideas as well as the processes by which these ideas were adapted to local circumstances. Adaptation resulted in an ‘outward looking’ alternative to European integration built on existing, local institutions, which serve many of the same functions as the European Commission, the Parliament and the Court of Justice.

The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from the research project ‘Australia and the European Union: a study of a changing trade and business relationship’ (LPO000000) supported by the Australian Research Council, as well as the European Australian Business Council, the European Commission, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and the Department of Industry and Innovation.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This chapter uses the terms ‘Australasian’, ‘Antipodean’ and ‘trans-Tasman’ to refer to Australia and New Zealand only. Some observers have included New Guinea as part of ‘Australasia’. We reject that usage explicitly. We also reject any (e.g. Eurocentric) value judgment attached to the term ‘Antipodean’. Instead we use it simply to identify Australia and New Zealand together.

  2. 2.

    Australian and New Zealand did negotiate agreements for mutual recognition of accreditation as a single team with the EU. However, each country signed a separate agreement with the EU and the initiative for joint negotiations came from Australian and New Zealand policymakers (Mumford 2004).

  3. 3.

    Australia is the largest source of imports into New Zealand and until 2013 was the largest market for New Zealand exports. Imports from and exports to Australia, however, make up no more than one-fifth of New Zealand’s trade with the world (New Zealand MFAT 2012). New Zealand ranks sixth among Australia’s export markets and seventh among two-way trade partners (Australian DFAT 2012).

  4. 4.

    The SPCs and COAG have had less success in coordinating policies with distributive implications and Commonwealth-State financial relations (see Weller 1996, pp. 98–99).

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    Dr. John Leslie

  2. Centre for European Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

    Dr. Annmarie Elijah

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  1. Department of Political Science, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden

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  2. National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Natalia Chaban

  3. Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    John Leslie

  4. College of Business and Law, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Annick Masselot

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Leslie, J., Elijah, A. (2015). From One Single Market to Another: European Integration, Australasian Ambivalence and Construction of the Trans-Tasman Single Economic Market. In: Björkdahl, A., Chaban, N., Leslie, J., Masselot, A. (eds) Importing EU Norms. United Nations University Series on Regionalism, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13740-7_6

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