The EU internal market (or single market, formerly the common market) seeks to guarantee the free movement of goods, capital, services and people within the 28 member states. 

In the 1980s, the Delors Commission took the initiative to attempt to re-launch the common market, publishing a White Paper in 1985 identifying 300 measures to be addressed in order to complete a single market. The White Paper which was well received and led to the adoption of the Single European Act, a treaty which reformed the decision making mechanisms of the EEC and set a deadline of 31 December 1992 for the completion of a single market.

25th Anniversary of the Single Market

The Single Market at 25: Many Achievements, New Challenges Ahead

The European Single Market

Infoclip: Free circulation of products in the Single Market

Memoclip: Single Market - Historical statements

History: Jacques Delors' Europe

Commissioner Francis COCKFIELD during a session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg in January 1985

Jacques DELORS doing a speech about his appointment as European Commission President at the European Parliament of Strasbourg in January 1985.

The newly appointed President of the Commission Jacques DELORS at the European Parliament of Strasbourg in January 1985.

Presentation of the DELORS Commission at the European Parliament in Brussels in January 1985

Francis Arthur COCKFIELD in plenary session in Strasbourg

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