Mapping the Cost of Non-Europe, 2014-19 - Fourth edition
This study brings together work in progress on a long-term project to identify and analyse the 'cost of non-Europe' in a number of policy fields. This concept, first pioneered by the European Parliament in the 1980s, is used here to quantify the potential efficiency gains in today's European economy through pursuing a series of policy initiatives recently advocated by Parliament – from a wider and deeper digital single market to more systematic coordination of national and European defence policies or increased cooperation to fight corporate tax avoidance. The benefits are measured principally in additional GDP generated or more rational use of public resources. The latest analysis suggests that the European economy could be boosted by €1.75 trillion per year – or 12 % of EU-28 GDP (2016) – by such measures over time. The study is intended to make a contribution to the on-going discussion about the European Union's policy priorities over the current five-year institutional cycle, running from 2014 to 2019.
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Policy area
- Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
- Contract Law, Commercial Law and Company Law
- Economics and Monetary Issues
- Employment
- Energy
- Environment
- European Added Value
- European Semester
- Financial and Banking Issues
- Gender Issues, Equality and Diversity
- Internal Market and Customs Union
- International Trade
- Research Policy
- Security and Defence
- Taxation
- Tourism
- Transport
Keyword
- BUSINESS AND COMPETITION
- business organisation
- company law
- corporation tax
- Economic and Monetary Union
- EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS
- ENVIRONMENT
- environmental policy
- equal pay
- euro area
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- FINANCE
- international affairs
- international law
- international relations
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- labour law and labour relations
- LAW
- monetary economics
- monetary relations
- personnel management and staff remuneration
- political framework
- POLITICS
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- research and intellectual property
- research policy
- rights and freedoms
- rule of law
- Schengen Agreement
- single market
- tax avoidance
- taxation
- TRANSPORT
- transport policy
- transport policy
- water management
- women's rights
- workers' representation