Mapping The Cost Of Non-Europe, 2014-19: Third Edition (April 2015)

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 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 principally 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 almost 1.6 trillion euro per year - or 12 per cent of EU-28 GDP (2014) - by such measures over time.

The study is intended as a contribution to the discussion about the European Union’s policy priorities over the current five-year institutional cycle, from 2014 to 2019.

Written by Joseph Dunne.

• Primary Source

European Parliament: Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union: Publications available via the EU Bookshop http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/directorate-general-for-internal-policies-of-the-union-cbf.cKABstF7wAAAEjwYYY4e5K/

EP: EPRS: Studies: Mapping The Cost Of Non-Europe, 2014 -19: Third Edition (April 2015) http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2015/536364/EPRS_STU(2015)536364_EN.pdf

EP: EPRS: Study: Mapping the Cost of Non-Europe, 2014 - 19 (First edition, March 2014) http://www.europeansources.info/record/mapping-the-cost-of-non-europe-2014-19/

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