EUROPEAN UNION INTERNAL MARKET: FREEDOM OF ESTABLISHMENT AND THE EUROPEAN COMPANY (SE)
EUROPEAN UNION INTERNAL MARKET: FREEDOM OF ESTABLISHMENT AND THE EUROPEAN COMPANY (SE)

Summary/Abstract: The European Union (EU) internal market is one of the mechanisms of economic integration based on the establishment of a common market among Member States, where, people, goods, services, and money can move around as freely as within a single country, and where EU citizen scan live, study, work or do business with freely1. The free provision of services and the freedom of establishment play a major role as key instruments for the socio-economic development of the Union. Both freedoms are two of the fundamental pillars on which the internal market is based and inevitably have a decisive impact on the project of effective European integration, on economic growth and on the overall competitiveness of the common project. However, its application of fact and, above all, of law, has had to overcome various stages, from the Treaty of Rome of 19572, up to the Treaty on European Union (TEU), going through all the legislative advances made by the European institutions which has needed the intervention of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to resolve the numerous disputes concerning the freedom of establishment and the lex societatis applicable to them, due mainly to the existing differences among the national laws of the EU countries concerned, where there is a lack of harmony, which causes a conflict of laws on the matter.

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