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EU-China Relations: An Update for Business
“China remains one of our most important yet challenging partners”, Markus J. Beyrer said at an EU-China seminar hosted at BusinessEurope. Speakers agreed that a number of longstanding iss...
European and Japanese businesses urge acceleration in EU-Japan free trade negotiations
Today BusinessEurope, Keidanren, the European Business Council in Japan and the Japan Business Council in Europe sent a joint letter to President Jean-Claude Juncker, President Donald Tusk, and Premie...
Unity, Prosperity, Security
Ahead of the meeting of heads of state and government at the Bratislava Summit on 16 September, BusinessEurope and its 40 national member federations have sent their key messages on how to build a bet...
Director General Markus J. Beyrer calls upon the EU for smart policy
"European business is very much on board when it comes to shifting towards a circular economy. We are committed to take more actions as circular economy offers opportunities for all business...
How to deal with an ageing population?
"The combination of an increasingly ageing population and a shrinking workforce poses huge challenges for our labour markets and social systems. It will place strong pressures on EU growth, publi...
G20 Summit in China – business expectations
G20 leaders will meet early September in China. This is an important gathering in a moment that we see a protectionist wave spreading around the world. BusinessEurope President Emma Marcegaglia calls...
EU Ministers should adapt labour market policies to underpin digital transformation
“The EU has the potential to become one of the most dynamic digital growth regions in the world. To derive maximum for all, we need open, dynamic and mobile labour markets and a workforce with t...
Achieving better integration of SMEs in Global Value Chains
“Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the global economy. Increasing their participation in Global Value Chains (GVCs) means growth and employment”, argued Mrs Lui...
President Marcegaglia calls upon the EU and China to seize bilateral and multilateral opportunities for growth
"China and the EU are indispensable and mature partners who should treat each other respectfully, on the basis of reciprocity, and speak directly and honestly with each other", Emma Mar...
Promoting and reinforcing European Social Dialogue
"The European Social Dialogue exists for around thirty years. It has evolved with the different stages of European integration. Today, with the recent quadri-partite statement of the EU Comm...
No future without industry
“The EU is going through one of the most difficult moments in its history. BusinessEurope regrets that the United Kingdom chose to leave the European Union. All our member federations were...
Shared roadmap on European social dialogue can foster trust and unity
On the occasion of signing a quadri-partite statement on European social dialogue today BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer said: “Only a few days after the UK decision to leave the EU,...
Discussing TTIP at the EESC and the Walloon Parliament
A dedicated energy chapter in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is important from an economic and strategic point of view. Not only EU companies depend on open raw material and energy...
BusinessEurope and CCIEE sign memorandum of understanding
BusinessEurope and the China Centre for International Economic Exchanges signed an agreement to establish an EU-China dialogue at the level of CEOs and former senior officials. The objective of the di...
Over 100 partners across Europe committed to Healthy Workplaces for All Ages
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has confirmed the first wave of official campaign and media partners to join its 2016-17 pan-European campaign, Healthy Workplac...
BusinessEurope in Canada
Director General Markus J. Beyrer led a BusinessEurope visit to Canada on 9-10 June. European business calls for swift implementation of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement - CETA, the most...
President Emma Marcegaglia discusses TTIP with USTR Michael Froman
The EU and the USA must pull their efforts and find pragmatic solutions that can get us closer to a deal on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. The business community in Europe is stro...
Mission to Washington, DC
A BusinessEurope delegation led by Director General Markus J. Beyrer is in the United States this week to discuss the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, in a final effort to push for an a...
Time for bold actions, no time for divisions
In his closing remarks at the European Business Summit Director General Markus J. Beyrer stressed that a strong economy is an indispensable basis to weather the multiple challenges facing us. In the p...
Companies need the right conditions to invest in digitalisation
Commenting on an Accenture Strategy study on the answers European companies give to the digital opportunities industry is facing, BUSINESSEUROPE Director General Markus J. Beyrer said: " We have...
President Marcegaglia addresses European Business Summit
Speaking in the opening session of the European Business Summit attended by European Council President Tusk and Commission Vice-President Katainen, the President of BUSINESSEUROPE, Emma Marcegaglia ex...
CETA is more important now than it was 7 years ago, Beyrer says at EBS
At a European Business Summit panel discussion today on CETA Director General Markus J. Beyrer underlined that BUSINESSEUROPE actively supports the agreement and its rapid implementation. “We ar...
Trade is under fire when it aims at delivering more
"Trade is no longer limited to elimination of tariffs. This is what allows it to increasingly have the objective of promoting fair market conditions that respect and promote high standards",...
Innovation should be systematically streamlined into policy and regulatory measures
"We believe politicians must now scale up to frame an environment conducive to innovation, in order to streamline innovation systematically into policy and regulatory measures". This was the...