ABSTRACT

The internal market shall comprise an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods, persons, services, and capital is ensured in accordance with the provisions of the Treaties'. This chapter looks at some of the issues that have arisen that are common to all Four Freedoms, and those issues which involve the relationship between one or more of them. The 'Four Freedoms' are: the free movement of persons; the free movement of services; the free movement of goods; and the free movement of capital. Article 65 specifies certain derogations from the free movement of capital provisions. Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) dates back to 1969, when the six heads of state of the European Economic Community agreed a plan, which would have achieved such a union by 1980, although the plan did not work.