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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...
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...