Mapping the Cost of Non-Europe, 2014-2019: First Edition - March 2014
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 the 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 in additional GDP generated or a more rational use of public resources. The analysis so far suggests that the European economy could be boosted by some 800 billion euro - or six per cent of current GDP - by such measures over time. The study is intended as a contribution to the growing discussion about the European Union’s policy priorities for the coming five-year institutional cycle, from 2014 to 2019.
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- BUSINESS AND COMPETITION
- business organisation
- common commercial policy
- common security and defence policy
- common transport policy
- company law
- cooperation policy
- coordination of aid
- deepening of the European Union
- EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS
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- energy policy
- energy policy
- equal pay
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- private international law
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- social protection
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- taxation
- TRADE
- trade policy
- TRANSPORT
- transport policy
- unemployment insurance