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So far they've been divided over completing their own internal market.

But Germany is still waiting for chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to form a government, so it was up to acting chancellor Olaf Scholz to point out that the "world's strongest internal market with 450 million consumers" gave Europe strength.

The UK government is to launch a review of the Internal Market Act.

Perhaps the most notable impact of the Internal Market Act came in the collapse of the Scottish government's bottle return recycling scheme.

Conservative ministers argued they had to take control of certain powers to ensure the "internal market" set a level playing field for companies across the UK – allowing Welsh farmers to sell their lamb in Belfast, and Scottish whisky distilleries to buy barley from English farmers.