Date: 2013
Type: Article
Liberalisation of service mobility in the EU's international trade agreements : as external as it gets
European journal of migration and law, 2013, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 245–261
JACOBSSON, Johanna, Liberalisation of service mobility in the EU's international trade agreements : as external as it gets, European journal of migration and law, 2013, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 245–261
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/29223
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The concept of the EU single market logically implies the adoption of a common external position on matters which it is primarily concerned with. In respect of goods and capital, such a position has gradually been formulated. With regard to people and services, national priorities continue to prevent the adoption of a united stance externally. Concentrating on the EU’s commitments under the WTO’s GATS Agreement, this article explains how the lack of a common position is due to the incomplete harmonisation of the internal market. This is especially evident in the case of the so-called ‘Mode 4’ that regulates the cross-border movement of natural persons supplying services. As long as the internal market is incomplete, the EU’s offer in respect of service trade negotiations remains fragmented along national lines. A single EU offer also poses the risk that the lowest common denominator becomes the basis of the EU’s common position.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/29223
Full-text via DOI: 10.1163/15718166-00002035
ISSN: 1388-364X; 1571-8166
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