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Markus J. Beyrer offers reform partnership to trade unions congress in Paris
"Europe needs strong trade unions to be able to partner with employers and put in place the structural reforms that are needed across Europe”, BUSINESSEUROPE’s Director General Markus...
Capital Markets Union: proposals will contribute to investment-led growth
Commenting on the European Commission’s Action Plan on Building a Capital Market Union, BUSINESSEUROPE Director General Markus J. Beyrer said: “We should urgently implement many of the excellent E...
Building a true single market for Europe
Making our single market work better is key to make Europe more competitive. Barriers to free movement represent an untapped economic potential of 5% of EU GDP. These obstacles hamper growth and job c...
BusinessEurope celebrates the second mandate of President Marcegaglia
“We can make Europe stronger only by working together to find European solutions to common challenges. To get more growth and jobs we must focus on reforms, open markets, access to finance, investme...
Putting flexicurity at the heart of the EU employment and social agenda
To achieve an employment-rich recovery, the European Commission should swiftly come up with a renewed EU employment and social policy approach combining security and flexibility (the ‘flexicurit...
Geo-blocking: addressing single market fragmentation is the best way to avoid differential treatment
Geo-blocking is a measure to block or limit access to a certain service, or to redirect and provide alternative treatment based on the customer’s location. In most cases, geo-blocking is the consequ...
EU should be stronger on comparable climate efforts
Today's conclusions of the EU Environment Ministers meeting on the global climate negotiations and the climate summit in Paris should have sent a stronger signal, BUSINESSEUROPE said. Director General...
President Marcegaglia defends women’s economic empowerment at G7 forum for dialogue with women
‘The involvement of leaders at the highest level and of the business community is key to making concrete progress on women’s participation in the economic life’, BusinessEurope's...
TTIP should include fair investor-state dispute settlement
Reacting to the European Commission’s proposal on investment protection and an investment court system in TTIP BUSINESSEUROPE stressed that EU investors should have a non-discriminatory, fair and ef...
EU-ASEAN building a stronger partnership
BusinessEurope met a delegation from the EU-ASEAN Business Council to discuss ways of improving trade and investment ties between EU and ASEAN countries. Already today ASEAN is a very important t...
Discussing climate with Dutch Minister for the Environment
'The European business community is committed to and has high expectations from the international climate summit in December in Paris' – this was one of the messages Director General Mar...
“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...