Studies5 show that creating a harmonised and well regulated digital single market has the same potential as implementing the single market in its original form, which is to say an upturn in growth of as much as 4%. In Germany alone, as many as 420,000 new jobs could be created between 2015 and 2020.
3.2  Common market for services  The market for digital applications is not the only one in which integration remains incomplete. The single market has proven extremely successful at simplifying trade in goods. As a result, competition here is intense.