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“State of the Union speech” – reaction
Reacting to today’s ‘State of the Union’ speech by Commission President Juncker, BUSINESSEUROPE President Emma Marcegaglia said: ‘We have to live up to our common European values when tackling...
Trade, investment discussed with Ukrainian deputy minister
BusinessEurope met with Ukrainian Deputy Minister for Economic Development, Ms Nataliya Mykolska, to discuss trade and investment relations, in light of the EU-Ukraine Deep and Comprehensive Trade and...
Climate: UN talks in Bonn
BusinessEurope as an observer participated in the tenth meeting of the Ad-hoc Group of the Durban Platform (ADP 2.10) held in Bonn, Germany from 31 August to 4 September. The goal of this session...
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In a statement issued today BusinessEurope President Emma Marcegaglia and Director General Markus J. Beyrer remind actors of our main positions in the field of climate policy. Together with all our me...
Launch of call for tender on improving implementation of EU autonomous agreements
The European social partner organisations BusinessEurope, CEEP, UEAPME and ETUC are calling for tender submissions to conduct expertise work on 'promoting social dialogue and better implementation...
Priorities for the Luxembourg Presidency
‘European policies have to contribute more to creating growth and help job creation’, President Emma Marcegaglia told Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg, when presenting BusinessEurope’...
Informal EPSCO Council, Luxembourg
While signs show a slight fall in the youth unemployment level, fact is that around 4.5 million young people are still unemployed, BusinessEurope commented. One solution is to put in place the condit...
EU ETS reform raises risk of investment leakage
Reacting to todays’ publication of the European Commissions’ Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) post 2020 reform proposal, Director General Markus J. Beyrer said: 'The Commission’s proposal is failin...
Energy in TTIP: an economic and strategic interest
The energy chapter in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is important from an economic and strategic point of view, BusinessEurope highlighted on 15 July at the TTIP stakeholder event...
EU employer organisations and trade unions present new work programme and in-depth employment analysis
The EU social partners' 5th autonomous work programme, a ‘Partnership for inclusive growth and employment’, sets the course for joint actions for 2015-17. EU social partners also agreed on a joint...
Markus J. Beyrer at Macroeconomic Dialogue (MED) at political level
BUSINESSEUROPE Director General welcomed the unanimous compromise found only a few hours earlier, sharing with Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis and Luxembourg Minister of Finance Pierre Gr...
Statement on the outcome of the Euro-area summit
The European business community stands united in welcoming the compromise found unanimously. This is a strong signal that the Euro-area is committed to staying together. The European business communit...
European social partners unveil new work programme and in-depth employment analysis
Deputy Director General Thérèse de Liedekerke, together with representatives of the other EU social partners ETUC, CEEP and UEAPME, today handed over the work programme for the European social dialo...
Markus J. Beyrer meets Minister McClay on the future of EU-New Zealand trade relations
Director General Markus J. Beyrer met Todd McClay, New Zealand’s Minister for Revenue, State Owned Enterprises and Associate Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, to discuss current trade and econ...
Statement on Greece
The European business community feels strong solidarity with the Greek business community and the Greek people. In its statement, BUSINESSEUROPE says it wants a solution to be found allowing Greece to...
European Parliament sends strong signal to move TTIP negotiations forward
Just a week before the new round of TTIP - Transatlantic Trade and Partnership Agreement negotiations takes place in Brussels, the European Parliament has sent a strong and positive signal to TTIP neg...
BusinessEurope comments on EP vote on shareholders rights
Following today’s plenary vote BusinessEurope supports the European Parliament’s emphasis on shareholder engagement. A new EU framework on shareholder identification will bring companies and inves...
Statement in view of the Greek referendum
Ahead of next Sunday’s referendum in Greece BUSINESSEUROPE President Emma Marcegaglia issued this statement: “We are concerned about the difficult times that capital controls and the lack...
Markus Beyrer meets Commissioner Arias Cañete on the future of the EU ETS
Markus J. Beyrer met Commissioner Cañete to discuss the upcoming reform of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. The meeting served to follow up on the letter sent to the Commission on Monday regarding th...
Create growth from services!
Services being the area with the biggest growth potential, it is key to remove remaining barriers to their free movement within the single market. This was stressed by Deputy Director General Jérôme...
10th EU-China Business Summit – Building a stronger partnership
This year marks 40 years of EU-China relations. These have proven a win-win partnership. China is now the EU's second trading partner behind the United States. The EU is China's biggest trading partne...
Enforce existing rules of posting of workers directive
Director General Markus J. Beyrer calls not to open up the posting of workers directive, but to focus on enforcement of the existing rules. Meeting with Prime Ministers of Sweden, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
Promoting gender equality at all company levels
BUSINESSEUROPE expressed its full support to its Spanish member CEOE’s initiative on gender equality - Promociona project - at a high-level event, in the presence of the Spanish State Secretary...
Finding an agreement with Greece: BusinessEurope statement
The European business community fully stands behind the Greek business community and the Greek people. We are deeply concerned about the negative consequences of a potential failure for Greece and the...