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> The EU has a unified single market for goods, but not for services.

It's definitely possible and easy for a company in EU country X to provide a service to individuals or companies in another EU country. What makes you think otherwise?

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The EU itself admits that. Their attempts at a digital market for services never really went anywhere. It's one reason the UK left and economic impact was less than some people claimed it would be. A services heavy economy wasn't benefiting from the EU single market so much to begin with. For example trying to sell legal or financial services across the EU is painful.

Language, for one. Legally it might be one market but having to translate your service in well over two-dozen languages is a bit of an entry barrier.

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