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Towards an alternative approach on European works councils
The European Works Councils Directive, as recast in 2009, provides a good legal framework for the functioning of European works councils. It offers social partners at company level the space to negoti...
Critical Raw Materials Act: what is essential to support competitiveness
European Commission Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis organised a roundtable to exchange views with business ahead of the publication of the Critical Raw Materials Act in March. "To support...
Trade policy is key to support the EU’s international competitiveness
The EU needs an ambitious trade agenda to support its international competitiveness. We need more and better access to key raw materials and more export opportunities for our companies to and from fas...
With our best wishes
We wish you a merry Christmas, a festive holiday season, and a peaceful new year....
European Year of Skills should foster systemic reform of education and training systems
BusinessEurope welcomes the focus of the proposed European Year of skills 2023 on lifelong learning, and with the aim of boosting competitiveness, participation in training and talent in line with cha...
Business leaders exchange views with the European Commission
BusinessEurope President Fredrik Persson, Director General Markus J. Beyrer and 30 business leaders from our Advisory and Support Group met with the political leadership of the European Commission in...
BusinessEurope in Washington: “Transatlantic relationship has never been so important”
As a testimonial of the importance of the transatlantic relationship, the first visit of Fredrik Persson as BusinessEurope’s President was to Washington D.C. this week. The agenda included meet...
Labour and skills shortages remain a crucial issue
Labour and skills shortages put additional pressure on labour markets as a growing number of companies depends on a shrinking number of workers, which results in a fierce competition for talent and hi...
Discussing EU-China relations
"EU-China relations have become more challenging recently. On the one hand, European companies are still confronted with significant asymmetries in our trade and investment relations. On the other han...
On a mission to Prague
Tackling skyrocketing energy prices and finding ways to mitigate them is an urgent matter of survival for both European industries and households. Together with SPCR Vice-President Radek Spicar, Busin...
BusinessEurope, ETUC, SGI Europe and SMEunited are launching a call for subcontracted expertise
BusinessEurope, ETUC, SGI Europe and SMEunited are launching a call for subcontracted expertise to create, develop and take care of the maintenance of a digital tool and produce video/communication...
BusinessEurope is mourning the passing of its former President Jürgen Thumann
Jürgen Thumann, who was President of BusinessEurope from 2009 to 2013, passed on 11 August 2022 shortly before his 81st birthday. He was a real entrepreneur, a great President of BusinessEurope and a...
Chemicals regulation: from European industry to society
"The revision of the chemicals regulation needs to be very well calibrated and strike the right balance between the necessary ambition and the need to avoid irreversible collateral damage on our indus...
Towards a meaningful EU social dialogue initiative
The upcoming social dialogue initiative of the European Commission is an important opportunity to take stock of the progress made and initiate new actions to further develop social dialogue at EU and...
Macroeconomic Dialogue – EU economy entering difficult phase
“Higher global prices for energy, raw materials and food are all driving EU inflation and putting pressure on businesses and households alike. As a net importer of energy, we cannot escape the fact...
EU-U.S. TTC: it is important to achieve concrete deliverables
BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer participated in the stakeholder roundtable of the EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council (TTC) in Paris. Together with high-level participants from both...
Discussion with Members of the Ukrainian Parliament
BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer met a delegation of Members of the Ukrainian Parliament. It was an opportunity to reiterate our strong condemnation of Russia’s aggression against Uk...
Current challenges to world trade: debate with MEP Bernd Lange
How the war in Ukraine will impact global trade and how geopolitical tensions will influence the EU trade policy and its relations with major trading partners were some of the topics dis...
Dealing with Ukrainian refugee crisis not losing sight of EU economic migration policy goals
Three million Ukrainian nationals have fled the war in Ukraine already. Employers’ organisations and companies are ready to do what they can to help Ukrainian refugees with their labour market integ...
Social partners have a key role to adapt labour markets to the twin digital and green transitions
Speaking at the informal meeting of ministers for work, employment and social affairs (EPSCO) in Bordeaux, BusinessEurope Director of Social Affairs Maxime Cerutti pointed out that Europe's policy res...
Unitary Patent agreement finally entered into force
Intellectual property is a key element of the EU's industrial policy to support innovation and achieve the objectives of the digital and climate twin transitions.
European businesses* welcome the lon...
With our best wishes
We wish you a festive season full of serenity and hope for a happy and healthy year 2022....
Economic policy makers need to think long-term in 2022
A comment by James Watson, BusinessEurope Director of Economics
There's an old saying that forecasting is difficult because it involves the future. But whilst the pandemic has made efforts to predict...
Exchanges on business priorities in view of the Czech EU Presidency
"We had good exchanges on business priorities and how to strengthen the EU Single Market and trade policy – which is promising", BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer said after a meeting...