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If Europeans aren’t bursting to give the single market a coming-out party, it may simply be that markets aren’t the kinds of things people gush about, as EC commission president Jacques Delors has often noted. The fact that free movement of people — an aspect of the market that will be most evident to the average person — is not yet a reality also plays a role.
Another explanation is that many of the market’s original 282 directives have already been implemented.
“By Jan. 1 we will have passed 95 per cent of what we sought in 1986 to create the single market, and much of that will already have been 【translated】 into national law,” says Perissich. “Adjustment to the market has been going on for years and won’t be expected over-night.”
37.What are the reasons why Europeans don’t give the single market a coming-out party?