Into: Definition of the Single Market
Single Market and the four freedoms
Liberalisation and Universal services
Liberalisation is the opening up of particular markets to competition, i.e. all the traders can offer their services to consumers. for example the introduction of competition between telecommunication network operators. The aim is to offer consumers more services of better quality, at a lower cost. The concept of liberalisation includes the privatisation of certain markets that were run by the State. Privatisation has occurred in those sectors that were regarded as natural monopolies, (...) Read more