Press releases
Joint statement – Business groups express their continued support for TTIP negotiations
The undersigned trade associations reiterate their strong support for the ongoing negotiations for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Both the European Commission and the U.S....
TTIP negotiations must go on
The US is the EU’s largest trade and investment partner and we are in the middle of a complex bilateral negotiation. Both sides knew from the start that it would not be easy for the two leading worl...
Posting of workers: Don’t divide EU – fight illegal practices
Today the European Commission has decided to maintain unchanged its proposal from 8 March 2016 to revise the EU posting of workers directive, which is in force since 1996. The European Commission has...
EU launched third WTO case against China’s export restrictions of raw materials
Today the EU launched a new case – the third – against China’s export restrictions policy in the area of raw materials, targeting graphite, cobalt, copper, lead, chromium, magnesia, talcum, tant...
Privacy Shield will enhance legal certainty
Today the European Commission adopted its adequacy decision enacting the new transatlantic framework for data flows, the “EU-US Privacy Shield.” This adoption will support innovation and growth, a...
Innovation policy: status quo is not an option
Following today’s release of the strategic note Opportunity Now: Europe’s Mission to Innovate by the European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC) of the European Commission, the European business com...
BusinessEurope statement on Brexit
BusinessEurope respects the decision of the voters but regrets that the United Kingdom chose to leave the European Union.
BusinessEurope President Emma Marcegaglia commented: "The European busin...
EU social partners should support reforms and growth to secure EU’s social model
At an extraordinary "macro-economic dialogue" today in Brussels, chaired by the President of the Eurogroup and the Economic Council, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, BUSINESSEEUROPE Director General Markus J. Bey...
Encouraging signs to strengthen the single market
Good progress on the delivery of the European Commission's Single Market Strategy was demonstrated today at a high-level conference in Amsterdam.
The Joint Initiative on Standardisation between pub...
EU must safeguard modest economic recovery…
…despite substantial uncertainty: UK, China, Schengen
Statement to EU leaders: Presidents of 40 European business federations
European business calls for UK to remain in the EU
Spring Eco...
European business calls for UK to remain – BusinessEurope statement
The Presidents of BusinessEurope and its member federations firmly wish to see the UK remain an active and positive member of the EU.
The economic recovery continues to make in-roads across Europe an...
Stimulus for e-commerce positive – but doubts on geo-blocking initiative
BUSINESSEUROPE fully supports the European Commission in its efforts to increase cross-border e-commerce and further develop the digital economy. The package presented today is timely because while e-...
Take EU Commission reform recommendations seriously
Following the release today by the European Commission of its 2016 country-specific reform recommendations, BUSINESSEUROPE Director General Markus J. Beyrer commented: "In recent years our members hav...
Important signal: No automatic China market economy status
BUSINESSEUROPE welcomes the resolution of the European Parliament with about 80 per cent of votes against an automatically conceded “market economy status” (MES) to China.
BUSINESSEUROPE Director...
Yellow card: don’t revise EU directive on posting of workers
National parliaments in more than one third of the EU member states have invoked a "yellow card" opposing the European Commission’s proposal to revise the EU posting of workers directive.
In their...
Commission’s economic forecast underscores the need for policies supporting long-term growth
Following the release of the European Commission’s Spring Economic Forecast this morning, BUSINESSEUROPE Director General Markus J. Beyrer made the following comment:
“The picture pain...
EU and Japan should work to conclude a free-trade agreement this year
On the occasion of the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Brussels on 3 May 2016 BUSINESSEUROPE recalls the importance of concluding an ambitious trade and investment agreement between the...
EU industrial digitalisation strategy just in time – ACT NOW
Today the European Commission published its strategy for digitising European industry within a digital single market.
Markus J. Beyrer, Director General of BUSINESSEUROPE commented: "The strategy foc...
New EU data protection rules increase administrative burden
Reacting on the European Parliament plenary vote on the EU general data protection regulation, Markus J. Beyrer, Director General of BUSINESSEUROPE, said: “We appreciate the efforts of the EU instit...
Country-by-country reporting risks damaging EU investment
Following the release today of the European Commission's proposals for companies to report financial information on a country-by-country basis to the public, BUSINESSEUROPE’s Director General, Marku...
EU business supports Commission plan to modernise VAT
Following the publication of the European Commission’s action plan on VAT, BUSINESSEUROPE’s Director General Markus J. Beyrer commented: "The European Commission's action plan on value-added tax c...
EU: trade union & employers agree on refugee crisis, digitalisation, industrial policy, & social dialogue
EU: trade union & employers agree on refugee crisis, digitalisation, industrial policy, & social dialogue
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Joint statements on
Refugee crisis – joint stat...