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Climate summit in Paris: BusinessEurope delegation in Washington, D.C.
What are the EU business community key expectations from an agreement at the climate summit in Paris? Olivier Imbault, Chair of BusinessEurope Energy and Climate Working Group, led a delegation to Was...
Climate change: exchanging views with new IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee
On a tour of European institutions in Brussels, Hoesung Lee was received by BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer, for a first exchange of views with business after his election as the new...
EU Ministers put planned railway legislation on right track
Europe’s need for a better connected and more efficient railway system has led the EU Transport Ministers today in Luxembourg to agree on the “market pillar” of the currently negotiated 4th EU r...
Recent perspectives for a global climate deal
The Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) process is key for a successful agreement at the international climate summit in Paris in December 2015. Business expects from it more cla...
Towards a new energy market design
When establishing a Europe-wide electricity market – a goal supported by European business – the top priority must be security of supply and affordable prices for consumers, both industry...
BusinessEurope in Ukraine
Meeting Aivaras Abromavičius, Ukrainian Minister of Economic Development and Trade, BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer discussed the path of reforms in the country ahead of the entry in...
EU and USA must urgently provide revised ‘Safe Harbour’
‘A disruption of cross-border data flow could seriously affect Europe’s transatlantic trade with the USA.’ Reacting to today’s judgement of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg on the S...
TPP conclusion: positive for EU negotiations with Japan and the USA
BUSINESSEUROPE welcomes the announcement in Atlanta of the conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. ‘The conclusion of TPP’, Director General Markus J. Beyrer said, ‘is a sig...
Restrictions on economic freedoms is not the way forward
During the closing session of the European Forum for New Ideas, a declaration prepared by Lewiatan – BusinessEurope's Polish member federation – was handed out to Donald Tusk, Presiden...
Markus J. Beyrer discusses ETS reform with ministers
BUSINESSEUROPE firmly supports the EU ETS as the best instrument to further incentivise carbon emissions reduction from industry. This was a message given today by Markus J. Beyrer at a lunch of the C...
TTIP and opportunities in health care
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership may increase the diversity and availability of health care services. The private sector is leader in bringing solutions, investing in research and de...
President Marcegaglia: “reduce inequalities through higher growth and employment”
Speaking at the opening gala session of the European Forum for New Ideas in Sopot, President Marcegaglia said “achieving higher growth and employment is essential to reduce inequalities. And it...
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...