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• Twenty years of joining the dots

  The financial crisis has put great strain on the single market, but that has not stopped EU leaders pledging to push it towards completion.
  

• Twelve steps to success?

  The European Commission has come up with 12 ways to advance the single market.
  

• MEPs aim to put the emphasis on citizens and businesses

  Chairman of the Parliament's internal market and consumer protection committee on how the single market should progress.
  

• State aid remains in crisis mode

  EU state-aid rules have changed rapidly over the past few years, and more change is on the way.
  

• Closer economic integration causes concern for Cameron

  The British prime minister fears that a two-tier EU could damage the single market.
  

• What odds on EU-wide gambling rules?

  Online gambling is big business, and pressure is building for EU legislation.
  

• The EU's low-speed price convergence

  In theory, the single market should bring customers price convergence across the EU, but price differences persist between the north and south, and within countries.
  

• Cross-border banking in the balance

  Europe's integration of the banking systems of central and eastern Europe has been hugely beneficial – and is now at risk.
  

European single market

Next year is the 20th anniversary of the creation of the EU's single market, and EU policymakers would like to mark the occasion by closing some of the gaps.

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