In June 1992, the French monthly newspaper Le Monde diplomatique analyses the way in which Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister, intends to impose her neo-liberal conception on the Common Market of the European Communities.
In an article published in the journal Internationale Spectator in March 1992, Piet Dankert, State Secretary in the Netherlands Foreign Ministry and former President of the European Parliament, emphasises the need to deepen the European Union before continuing to widen it.
On 1 January 1993, the internal market — an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is ensured — enters into force.
In spring 1992, in an article published in the Spanish magazine Política Exterior, Carlos Westendorp, Junior Minister in the Spanish Ministry for European Affairs, outlines the challenges which will arise when the single market becomes a reality in 1993.
Lord Francis Arthur Cockfield, Vice-President of the European Commission with special responsibility for the single market, is the man behind the 1985 White Paper on the Completion of the Internal Market.
On 27 November 1985, the Economic and Social Committee (ESC) of the European Communities delivers its opinion on the European Commission’s White Paper ‘Completing the Internal Market’. The opinion is adopted by 90 votes in favour, 14 votes against and 17 abstentions.
