Mapping the Cost of Non-Europe, 2014 -19 - Third edition (April 2015)
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 from pursuing a series of policy initiatives recently advocated by Parliament - from a wider and deeper digital single market to better coordinated national and European policies for defence and development. The benefits may be measured principally in additional GDP generated or a more rational use of public resources. The latest analysis suggests that the European economy could be boosted by almost 1.6 trillion euro per year - or 12 per cent of EU-28 GDP (2014) - by such measures over time. The study is intended as a contribution to the on-going discussion about the European Union’s policy priorities over the current five-year institutional cycle, from 2014 to 2019.
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- Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
- Consumer Protection
- Contract Law, Commercial Law and Company Law
- Development and Humanitarian Aid
- Economics and Monetary Issues
- Education
- Employment
- Energy
- Environment
- European Added Value
- European Semester
- Financial and Banking Issues
- Foreign Affairs
- Gender Issues, Equality and Diversity
- Industry
- Internal Market and Customs Union
- International Trade
- Research Policy
- Security and Defence
- Social Policy
- Tourism
- Transport
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- accounting
- BUSINESS AND COMPETITION
- citizens' Europe
- common security and defence policy
- common transport policy
- consumer protection
- consumption
- cooperation policy
- coordination of aid
- coordination of EMU policies
- cost-benefit analysis
- economic analysis
- economic analysis
- ECONOMICS
- electronic commerce
- European construction
- European social policy
- EUROPEAN UNION
- FINANCE
- financial institutions and credit
- financial legislation
- free movement of capital
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- international trade
- law of banking
- liberalisation of trade
- marketing
- monetary economics
- single market
- social affairs
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- tourism policy
- TRADE
- trade agreement (EU)
- TRANSPORT
- transport policy