The latest English version of Single Market News issue 56 is now available at.
Regardless what is written in there, expect it to reflect an outdated state of debate. As I argued before now Single Market will become the lame duck department of the Commission working on evergreen issues like manufacturing an agreement on the community patent.
Issue 56 features the outgoing Commissioner Charlie McCreevy. McCreevy’s pet project financial market deregulation was cratered last year together with the Irish model and won’t come back in the new portfolio. He assumes an ideological mission to defend the single market for his successor:
The job of the next Commission, I believe would be to stand against those who, for a variety of political reasons, some of them may be ideological or philosophical, whatever they’d be, block the Single Market. To not allow the Single Market, the European markets to be interfered with.
Indeed, there are such forces, for instance those who prefer protection of geographical indications or the member states patent offices which obstruct the creation of a community patent for the single market.
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[…] or simply lobbied to death. It’s already manned by the wrong people. André Rebentisch has this little update about McCreevy’s folly (he is no longer one among candidate Commission heads whom André is watching): Issue 56 features […]
I am not sure the term “folly” suits the dignity of his office and his work. McCreevy is a tragic person as a Commissioner. He inherited certain controversial projects from Bolkestein and his main focus of activities was cratered by the financial crisis. Unable to reverse his true convictions he lost political support.