Single Market
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EU budget: Britain’s bluster serves the eurozone well
26 November 201210016 Financial Times London -
Central Europe: Government policies push firms to tax havens
9 August 2012535PresseuropSME, Hospodářské Noviny -
Telecommunications: EU to end “rip-off” roaming charges
29 March 20121122PresseuropFinancial Times, The Guardian -
Telecoms: Coming soon: phones without borders
7 July 2011PresseuropSME -
E-commerce: EU button to free online trade
23 September 2010131PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Netherlands: Maastricht goes to pot
18 August 2010PresseuropInternational Herald Tribune -
European integration: Oiling the European machinery
10 August 2010422 Polityka Warsaw -
Finance: Brussels restructures banks
27 October 2009PresseuropNRC Handelsblad -
Financial Crisis: Surprising change for developing countries
13 August 2009PresseuropCapital -
Mobile telephones: EU // mob bills, gud nws :-)
30 June 2009PresseuropLibération
The EU leaders' failure to find an agreement on the budget is largely symbolic as negotiations concern only a very small part of the Union’s wealth. More important to the EU’s future is the efficiency of the single market and relations between the countries inside and outside the currency bloc. 
Although you can find the same wall tiles, cheeses, shoes or cars all over the EU, the ‘common market’ remains common chiefly on paper. In reality, it’s full of constraints.