Just two member states have reached the EU's politically agreed targets for implementing internal market law.
Lithuania and Spain are the only member states of the 25-union club that have managed to have less that 1.5 percent of internal market laws not implemented.
Other countries which were leading the field last year - including Denmark, Finland, the UK and Ireland - have since slipped down the scale.
The figures show that since enlargement in May, all of the old member s...
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