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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...
Jonathan Faull at BusinessEurope Executive Committee meeting
Directors General of BusinessEurope member federations had the opportunity to exchange views with Jonathan Faull, Director General for financial stability, financial services and capital markets unio...
On the road to Paris: Europe in the lead in energy efficiency technologies
As part of the EU Sustainable Energy Week, BusinessEurope on 16 June organised an event to illustrate how European companies are leading on energy efficiency technologies. Launching the deb...
CCCTB: EU tax rules must allow for consolidation and remain voluntary
Ahead of the expected publication of the European Commission’s action plan on fair corporate taxation, BusinessEurope’s President Emma Marcegaglia made the following comments: ‘European business...
On the road to Paris: Europe in the lead in energy efficiency technologies
As part of the EU Sustainable Energy Week, BusinessEurope on 16 June organised an event to illustrate how European companies are leading on energy efficiency technologies. Launching the debate, Busin...
Industrial competitiveness: how to respond to innovation challenges?
‘ The EU should put competitiveness first and urgently deliver on the growth and job agenda’, Deputy Director General Jérôme P. Chauvin said at the third industrial policy conference organised b...
European business: 10 priorities for Paris climate summit
Participating in the preparatory climate change conference until 11 June 2015 in Bonn, BUSINESSEUROPE presented proposals to reach a legally binding agreement with comparable mitigation efforts from m...
TTIP: postponement of the vote at the European Parliament
Talking about the decision to postpone the vote BusinessEurope President Marcegaglia said: 'The TTIP project is more than just a trade deal. It allows the EU and the USA to renew their strategic part...
New culture of innovation and less risk-averse attitude in Europe
A more balanced approach to risk should be a priority for the new European Commission, BusinessEurope President Emma Marcegaglia told Commissioner Carlos Moedas. Together with BusinessEurope Directo...
Business message on Turkish elections
The Turkish people have spoken. Commenting on Sunday’s elections in Turkey, BusinessEurope underlined that European companies support a democratic, strong and open Turkey. ‘Together with our memb...
President Marcegaglia at EU-CELAC summit
Latin America and the Caribbean are important partners of the EU as dynamic and developing regions with high-growth potential and huge opportunities to develop win-win business solutions. Business and...
ADP negotiations in Bonn
With less than 200 days to go until COP 21 in Paris (1-11 December), governments have just completed the first week of a two-week negotiation in Bonn to prepare a new comprehensive agreement to tackle...
Shareholders rights: ‘comply or explain’ must be preserved
In a joint message to members of the European Parliament ahead of next week’s plenary vote, BUSINESSEUROPE, ecoDa and the EuropeanIssuers have stressed that the current revision of the shareholders...
Future of European industry discussed in Graz
'The ongoing fourth industrial revolution is digitally transforming European industry, and will help deliver efficiencies to EU industry and services', BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyre...