Press releases
Better regulation
Publication of ‘Long-term competitiveness of the EU’ and ‘The Single Market at 30’: Top quality competitiveness checks are needed for all EU policy and regulatory initiatives
16 March 2023 - Commenting on the publication of the European Commission communication on the long-term competitiveness of the EU, BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer said: "Top quality c...
Raw materials
Proposal for the Critical Raw Materials Act: “Good start, now make the Act workable for businesses”
On the proposal for the Critical Raw Materials Act, BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer stated: "Good start, now make the Act workable for businesses"
"The proposal is a good start, but...
Climate change
Commission proposal for the Net-Zero Industry Act: “Limited scope risks to become handicap for Europe’s net-zero transformation”
16 March 2023 - On the expected Commission’s proposal for the Net-Zero Industry Act, BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer stated: “Limited scope risks to become handicap for Europe’s...
Energy and environment
Revision of the Industrial Emissions Directive: change substantially for better practicality
15 March 2023 - Ahead of the Environment Council’s General Approach on the revision of the Industrial Emissions Directive, BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer stated: "Change substantia...
Energy
EU electricity market design reform: Step in the right direction
14 February 2023 - On the proposal for reform of the EU electricity market design reform, BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer stated: "Step in the right direction"
"The European Commissi...
Make Europe the place to invest and do business again – BusinessEurope presents action plan for more competitiveness and regulatory breathing space
13 March 2023 - BusinessEurope calls on the EU to urgently change course for more competitiveness. BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer stated: "Swift action is needed now to make Europe t...
International investment
EU foreign subsidies instrument: Keep administrative burden low for instrument to be effective
On the public consultation on the procedural details of the EU foreign subsidies instrument, BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer said: "Keep administrative burden low for instrument to be...
Bilateral relations
Agreement between the EU and the UK on the post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland: Deal helps to prepare the ground for closer EU-UK cooperation
28 February 2023 - On the news about an agreement between the European Union and the UK on the post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland, BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer s...
Energy
EU electricity market design: Future-proofing that supports competitiveness of the European economy is needed
20 February 2023 - On the envisaged reform of the EU electricity market design, BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer said: "Future-proofing that supports competitiveness of the European ec...
Economy and finance
The rapidly increasing numbers of bankruptcies are alarming
16 February 2023 - On today's publication of the new EU bankruptcy figures by Eurostat, BusinessEurope’s Director General Markus J. Beyrer stated: “The rapidly increasing numbers of bankruptcies a...
SMEs and entrepreneurship
BusinessEurope SME Roadshow kicked off in Helsinki
Strengthening European small and medium-sized enterprises is key to boost Europe’s global competitiveness
Brussels/Helsinki, 8 February 2023 - The BusinessEurope SME Roadshow kicked off today in Fi...
BusinessEurope on the special meeting of the European Council: EU urgently needs to do its homework on investment conditions
8 February 2023 - Ahead of the special meeting of the European Council on 9-10 February 2023, BusinessEurope President Fredrik Persson formulates the European business community’s expectation: “EU...
EU should create regulatory breathing space to strengthen competitiveness and respond effectively to IRA
31 January 2023 - On Wednesday, the European Commission will present its proposals on how the EU can strengthen its competitiveness. To this end BusinessEurope President Fredrik Persson stated: “the...
Climate change
Trialogues on Emission Trading System and Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
EU industry needs a framework that fosters innovation, and credible protection from carbon leakage at home and abroad
(15 December 2022) With regards to this weekend’s decisive round of trialogues...
ASEAN
Efforts must be stepped up on trade agreements with ASEAN countries
(14 December 2022) The first EU-ASEAN Summit is taking place today in Brussels. BusinessEurope calls for negotiations with individual ASEAN countries to be revived and concluded.
BusinessEurope Direc...
Labour markets and social policy
Seizing the final chance to improve the pay transparency trilogue deal
(13 December 2022) The Council and the European Parliament are in the process of concluding their trilogue negotiations on the draft directive on pay transparency. While fully sharing the gender equal...
Climate change
EU industry urgently needs instruments like ETS innovation fund to avoid de-industrialisation
(6 December 2022) - EU industry is confronted with a momentous decarbonisation challenge and urgently needs instruments like the ETS innovation fund to implement low-carbon solutions and build bu...
Bilateral relations
U.S. – Discriminatory measures in IRA must be addressed and solved
(2 December 2022) - On Monday 5 December, the third Ministerial meeting of the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) and the first Transatlantic Labour Dialogue will take place in Washington, DC....
EU SME strategy
Make Better Regulation work better for SMEs!
A joint analysis of the SME Test
Prague, 29 November 2022 - BusinessEurope, Eurochambres, and SMEunited have joined forces to analyse the application of the SME Test across the European Commission se...
Governance
Companies urgently need a game changing EU solution on energy and effective policies to improve competitiveness
25 November 2022 - Today, the Presidents of BusinessEurope’s 40 member federations gathered in Stockholm at the invitation of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. They presented their priorities...
Climate change
COP27 did not deliver on urgently needed convergence of ambition
21 November 2022 - Yesterday, negotiators closed proceedings at the COP27 climate conference in Sharm-El Sheik, Egypt. Reflecting on the decisions today and the process of the last two weeks, Bus...
Economy and finance
Action is needed now to avoid further investment leakage due to rising costs
BusinessEurope today published its Autumn 2022 Economic Outlook
7 November 2022 - Our autumn economic forecast shows that the EU economy will grow by 2.8% between 2021 and 2022, but only 0.6% in 202...
Climate change
BusinessEurope pushes for COP to converge on high climate ambition
4 November 2022 - On the occasion of the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) of the UNFCCC, beginning on the 6 November in Sharm-El Sheik, Egypt, BusinessEurope has published a position paper with...
Energy
Energy crisis: we need a game-changer proposal
24 October 2022 - Following last week’s European Council, energy ministers will discuss tomorrow in Luxembourg the recently tabled proposals and possible further measures. BusinessEurope calls on t...