Development Issues on the EU Internal Market

The internal market should be seen as a process, evolution, starting from the common market established by the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (1952, which established the coal and steel market ) respectively Treaty establishing the European Economic Community and the Treaty establishing European Atomic Energy Community (1958, which established a European common market generalized to the entire economy and atomic energy). Each subsequent treaty founding treaties of the European Communities helped to eliminate trade barriers between Member States in order to increase economic prosperity and contribute to, ever closer union among the peoples of Europe .