How to Use common market in a Sentence

common market

noun
  • If Brexit goes through, Britain will not be a member of the common market or the customs union.
    William A. Galston, WSJ, 25 July 2017
  • China’s goal was full access to the EU’s common market.
    Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Europe is always more than the common market, more than the European Union.
    Fox News, 1 Jan. 2021
  • The talks the Trump administration called for to revamp the pact and its 24-year-old common market have been going on for months, with little signs of progress between the three sides of yet.
    Bloomberg.com, 9 Jan. 2018
  • In the 1950s the Germans got the common market in exchange for the common agricultural policy.
    The Economist, 24 May 2018
  • Goods and people could travel freely within the EU’s common market, obviating the need for a border anyway.
    Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 19 May 2022
  • If a wealthy member state can throw billions of euros at an industry while a poorer one has to scrape by and look on jealously, the concept of the EU’s common market is under threat.
    Raf Casertand and Samuel Petrequin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The European Union began as a common market that slowly expanded in size.
    Damon Linker, The Week, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Their aim was to weld the French and German economies so closely together as to make war impossible, for example by creating a common market in coal and steel.
    The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • With Britain operating under European common market rules, trucks usually clear the port of Dover in around eight minutes.
    Stephen Castle, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2020
  • As a result, Europe must be more present and react swifter on the global stage, while increasing its competitiveness and strengthening the common market.
    Arne Delfs, Bloomberg.com, 22 Mar. 2020
  • Europe, the world’s largest common market, has been flexing its regulatory muscle over US tech giants in recent years.
    Scott Nover, Quartz, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Kenyatta quashed concerns that a bilateral free trade deal would undermine a new pan-African free trade agreement aimed at creating the world’s largest common market.
    Fox News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • What’s more, except for last month, Value has also underperformed the S&P 500 index, the most common market benchmark, during all these periods.
    Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Kenyatta rejected concerns that a free trade deal with the United States would undermine a new continental free trade agreement in Africa aimed at creating the world’s largest common market.
    Tom Odula, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Europe instituted the exchange-rate mechanism (ERM) as an initial step towards a common market on the continent.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Many Britons voted for Brexit because control over immigration and their laws mattered more to them than the pecuniary advantages of the European common market.
    Greg Ip, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2017
  • My long-term vision is to establish a common market of democracies because the world’s democracies represent about 60 percent of the global economy.
    Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 18 July 2022
  • Without a thriving common market fueled by the free flow of labor, goods, and workers, production and trade will fall, leading to increased unemployment and rising social unrest.
    James Kirchick, Slate Magazine, 11 Apr. 2017
  • Once planted, this idea grew into what is the European Union today, in which German economic might is managed through a common market, with common rules and a common currency set by a common institution.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Challenge: These two projects have remained unfinished as national governments repeatedly held up steps to strike down barriers that banks and other financial firms face in the EU’s common market.
    Jonathan Stearns, Bloomberg.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Brexit suggested an orderly and well-managed—but less decisive—exit, with agreements in place to smooth the process of disentangling the UK from more than 40 years of membership of the European common market and community.
    Cassie Werber, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Poorer European states say that Berlin has put their economies at a disadvantage by distorting the continent’s common market with a relief package, worth €200 billion, to help Germany weather soaring energy and inflation prices.
    Erika Solomon, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Global economies have taken significant steps toward forging alliances that spread common market values and industrial leadership, but there is more work to be done in terms of international collaboration.
    Sanjay Brahmawar, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2021
  • His government has introduced some encouraging reforms: reducing barriers to foreign investment, cutting subsidies, and unifying India’s states into a common market.
    Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020

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