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G20 countries business community launches roadmap for digital economy
Leading independent industry associations and business organisations from G20 countries outlined strategies of the global business community for 2015. At their meeting in Istanbul, they also agreed to...
Improving investment in Europe and international trade to create jobs
'Within Europe, BusinessEurope counts on the Latvian Presidency to foster agreement on reforms to improve the investment climate and on the European Fund for Strategic Investment as well as on measur...
EU national budgets: flexibility and enforcement must go hand in hand
Following yesterday’s communication from the EU Commission on the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), Markus J. Beyrer commented: 'We believe the EU Commission has taken an important step towards incre...
Priorities outlined to EU Commissioner Jourová
Justice, consumers and gender equality – areas in the portfolio of EU Commissioner Věra Jourová – are of great importance for companies. These topics and our priorities for the next five...
Draft EFSI legislation a positive start
Commenting on the publication by the Commission of the draft legislation to set up the European Fund for Strategic Investment, Markus J. Beyrer said: 'The draft legislation published today takes us a...
TTIP can improve settlement of investment disputes
The European Commission published today the results of the public consultation on investment protection and ISDS in TTIP. BUSINESSEUROPE views this exercise positively as a way to modernise the existi...
Safe Harbour framework discussed with the European Commission
After recommendations on Safe Harbour were published in November 2013, bilateral discussions are going on between the EU and US authorities about implementation. Some further work needs to be done on...
An ARC across the Atlantic: benefits of a trade and investment agreement with America
The Alliance for Responsible Commerce (ARC) is a new initiative aimed at explaining the benefits of free trade and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. The ARC website, launched recent...
Meeting Commission Vice-President for Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič
BusinessEurope supports the objective of the Energy Union strategy to achieve the right balance between energy cost competitiveness, security of supply and global climate objectives, Director General...
Meeting Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation Carlos Moedas
BusinessEurope's Director General Markus J. Beyrer and Commissioner Carlos Moedas discussed not only the value of innovation for the European economy and competitiveness, but also the industrial parti...
Business consensus on TTIP – with UK PM Cameron and Beyrer at CBI event
Markus J. Beyrer, Director General of BUSINESSEUROPE, went to address TTIP at a conference hosted by David Cameron, UK Prime Minister, and John Cridland, Director-General of the Confederation of Briti...
What does business expect from TTIP?
2015 will be a decisive year for TTIP. European business restated their priorities in the negotiations in view of the 'fresh start' agreed between Trade Commissioner Malmström and USTR Froman. Organi...
Juncker’s work programme more focused on key priorities
The European Commission work programme for 2015 has a clear focus on key priorities, translating the political guidelines of the Juncker Commission into action. European companies support this clear f...
EP vote on Fuel Quality Directive: EU should strengthen security of energy supply
Ahead of the plenary vote next Wednesday, European companies urge Members of the European Parliament to take the wider strategic energy security context into account in their final decision on the Fue...
Lima brings some clarity, but hard work needed to make Paris a success
Reacting to the results of climate negotiations in Lima, Markus J. Beyrer said: 'The Lima conference brings some extra clarity on the collective working method towards the Paris talks, but we've now m...
Lima climate talks finally reach a close
In the early hours of Sunday morning, 36 hours behind schedule, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference in Lima concluded with an agreement by the governments on a decision t...
Lima brings some clarity, but hard work needed to make Paris a success
BUSINESSEUROPE's first reaction on the results of the climate negotiations in Lima
Director General Markus J. Beyrer said: "The Lima conference brings some extra clarity on the collective...
Europe should speed up digital industrial transformation
Today, BUSINESSEUROPE’s Executive Committee adopted its priorities for the digital economy in Europe and presented them to Günther Oettinger, European Commissioner in charge of the digital economy...
TTIP key priority for Commissioner Malmström
The EU-US negotiations will be the major priority in the area of trade for the new Commissioner and 2015 will be a decisive year. Decisions by Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström to contribute to a...
Stakes have been raised at COP20, Ministers have arrived, high-level segments have begun and the pressure is on now to start moving closer to something which can be agreed at Lima
The week began with the release of two new texts under the Durban Platform (or ADP) negotiations: one for the draft decision from the Lima talks (which focuses on the nature and content of the Intende...
EU needs to change approach on risk/opportunity balance to foster potential of digital economy
At an EP hearing organised by the ECR group today, Jérôme Chauvin presented BUSINESSEUROPE’s priorities for the digital economy. He focused on the need for Europe to set up the appropriate fra...
TTIP: “Get into the heart of negotiations!”
BUSINESSEUROPE supports the announcement by the European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström and the US Trade Representative Mike Froman of their commitment to give a “new start” to the TTIP neg...
TTIP: time to push negotiations forward, BusinessEurope says
"BusinessEurope calls on the Commission and the United States to give a fresh start to the TTIP negotiations by concluding the phase of information exchange swiftly. It’s time to move on to concrete...
One week gone, one to go!!!
The end of week 1 is nigh!
Things are moving slowly in the ADP negotiations. Thursday focused on the content of Parties’ Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) – basically...