The Single Market is one of the major achievements of European integration, and one of its key drivers. Established on 1 January 1993, the European Single Market allows goods, services, people and capital to move around the EU freely, making life easier for people and opening up new opportunities for businesses.

DG GROW has planned a year-long communication and outreach campaign on the Single Market, which will be open to all local events or initiatives organised by authorities and other stakeholders across the EU. In this context, we have set up a dedicated website with an interactive map where we have started listing relevant events organised in the Member States at the local and national level. We encourage you to share with us any of your relevant events. The site also offers useful materials for your events, such as the SM30 visual identity and the style guide of the campaign, promotional material such as posters, roll-ups, social media and a lot more.

To mark the 30th anniversary of the Single Market, you’re invited to join us at one of the events, talks and exhibitions organised by the Commission and many different stakeholders that will take place throughout 2023 across the EU. Register your own local event and come back to our site from time to time as initiatives will gradually appear throughout the year!

The Single Market has brought unity and opportunities to Europeans, eliminating old barriers to allow more than 460 million people and business to move, communicate and trade freely across 31 countries. The European Parliament continues to work to adapt the Single Market further to respond to current challenges and make full use of its potential.

Euronews in partnership with DG GROW, interviewed our Director-General, Kerstin Jorna, on the subject, and reported on Skoon Energy, a young startup that has set up a network of swappable batteries, with the aim of getting rid of battery waste.

On 16 January 2023, Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of Europe fit for the Digital Age, and Commissioner for Competition, attended the plenary session of the European Parliament (EP) in Strasbourg, on the 30th Anniversary of the Single Market.

The EU's Single Market allows goods, services, capital and people to move freely across EU countries. How much do you know about it? Test yourself with the quiz

The European Parliament adopted on Wednesday 18 January a resolution on the 30th anniversary of the EU Single Market. The text outlines the most pressing challenges facing the Single Market today and recommendations for the way forward.

In this opinion piece, Commissioner Thierry Breton delineates how the Single Market will help us build our industrial future by ensuring a level playing field among all 27 EU Member States even in times of crisis. The Single Market is and will remain our joint source of growth, job creation and exports.

DG GROW and the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU kicked off the Single Market 30th Anniversary celebrations with a political conference, which focused on the vision for the next 30 years, as well as the opportunities and risks for further integration. Read here Commissioner Thierry Breton's full keynote speech.

MEPs believe the Single Market has to be adapted further to respond to current challenges. During the plenary session in mid-January the European Parliament looked at how the Single Market has transformed Europe since its launch in 1993 and what else should be done to make full use of its potential.

In this episode of Business Planet, find out how Europe intends to shake off its dependence on Russian gas by ramping up renewables, specifically solar, and the challenges it faces. Solar is seen as crucial to Europe's energy security, climate goals, and jobs. Europe installed a record-breaking 41.4 gigawatts of photovoltaic power in 2022 -- a rise of 47% compared to 2021-- according to industry group SolarPower Europe.

This paper provides an analytical contribution on the state of the Single Market 30 years after its establishment and the role of the Single Market as driver of EU resilience. It assesses developments in goods and services integration.

How can we judge Europe’s progress towards completing the Single Market? How should we estimate prospective gains from further steps? This paper argues that new insights on these questions can be generated by comparing Europe’s Single Market governance, economic flows, and some related political attitudes to the same conditions in the United States.

The Single Market is one of the European Union’s greatest achievements and has progressed significantly over the last 30 years. The Single Market is now home to 24 million companies and 15% of the world's trade in goods is from the EU. This factsheet brings together this and more interesting figures.

The past three decades have allowed people, goods, services, and money to move around freely within the EU’s Single Market. Between 2010 and 2021, the number of employed persons in EU countries with a citizenship of another EU country increased by 47%. Eurostat gathered interesting facts and figures about the EU Single Market.