12288. THE SINGLE MARKET AND THE EU'S ROLE IN WORLD TRADE. This paper considers how the completion (or near-completion) of the Single Market has enhanced the role of the EU in world trade and the global economy. The analysis looks at how the Single Market has accelerated growth in European economies and encouraged the expansion of free trade throughout the world. Considers the EU's enlarged role in subsidizing and encouraging economic development and growth in LDC's and setting international trade standards and regimes. Examines some of the problems which remain to be solved before the EU can fully achieve its single market and complete economic and political integration. 15p., 38f., 22b.