Press releases
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...
Better regulation
EU Employers welcome Commission’s decision to introduce a competitiveness check in EU policy and law-making – Joint press release by the EESC Employers’ Group, BusinessEurope, SMEunited and SGI Europe
25 October 2022 - The EESC Employers' Group, BusinessEurope, SMEunited and SGI Europe welcomed the decision of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to introduce a competitiveness check in all fut...
Energy
Energy crisis: European business urges leaders to support bold actions
20 October 2022 - EU leaders are gathering today in Brussels to discuss the recently published energy package and possible further measures to alleviate the energy crisis. BusinessEurope regrets that...
European Commission Work Programme 2023: real offsetting of administrative and financial burden is needed
18 October 2022 - Reacting to the presentation of the Commission Work Programme for next year, BusinessEurope welcomes the announcement not to do business as usual. The various and parallel cris...
Energy
Energy crisis: European business calls for new EU-wide measures
6 October 2022 – Tomorrow in Prague heads of state and government will discuss the energy crisis situation. BusinessEurope calls on leaders to urgently agree on new EU-wide measures to alleviate co...
Energy
Addressing skyrocketing energy prices is a matter of survival for European companies and households
9 September 2022 - Today, the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU will hold an extraordinary meeting of the Energy Ministers to discuss emergency measures to mitigate the extremely high energy p...
Energy
Business calls on market-driven winter preparedness
Forced curtailments should only be considered as an option of very last resort
20 July 2022 - Today, the European Commission presented a package of measures aiming to prepare Europe for potential fut...
Bilateral relations
BusinessEurope paper: EU-China: Engaging with a systemic rival
19 July 2022 - Today, BusinessEurope published its new paper on “EU-China relations – Engaging with a systemic rival” coinciding with the EU-China High-Level Economic Dialogue. The paper, which...
Economy and finance
Improving business environment is crucial to face rising costs and falling growth
BusinessEurope today published its Summer 2022 Economic Outlook
7 July 2022 - Today, BusinessEurope published its Summer 2022 Economic Outlook, forecasting the EU economy to grow by 2.6% between 2021...
Digital economy
Business supports EU’s green light for competitive and safer digital sector
European Parliament’s final vote on DMA and DSA is a bold positive step
5 July 2022 - Today the European Parliament made its final vote on the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. Whil...
Trade
Important step forward: EU agreement against distortive foreign subsidies
30 June 2022 - The European institutions have reached a compromise on the proposed foreign subsidies instrument. BusinessEurope welcomes the agreement and hopes for an efficient and effective implemen...
Bilateral relations
EU-New Zealand agreement: welcome restart of an ambitious bilateral trade agenda
EU-New Zealand agreement: welcome restart of an ambitious bilateral trade agenda
30 June 2022 - Today, Executive Vice-President and Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis and New Zealand Trade Ministe...
EU social dialogue
European Unions and Employers sign historic deal
27 June 2022 - European trade unions and employers will tomorrow sign a work programme, including to negotiate a legally binding agreement on ‘Telework and right to disconnect’.
ETUC, Busin...
Multilateral / WTO
WTO Ministerial – the agreement keeps alive the multilateral trading system
17 June 2022 - The WTO-World Trade Organisation Ministerial meeting MC12 ended after 5 days of intense negotiations with an agreement that allows to keep the multilateral trading system alive. Al...
Industrial relations and EU labour law
EU minimum wage rules must not undermine social partners’ competences
16 June 2022 - Today, the Employment and Social Affairs Council (EPSCO) meets in Luxembourg, days after a trilogue agreement on a directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union was reached....
Fredrik Persson to succeed Pierre Gattaz as President of BusinessEurope
3 June 2022 - During its meeting in Prague today, the Council of Presidents of BusinessEurope unanimously elected Mr Fredrik Persson, who was until recently President of Swedish Enterprise (Svenskt N...
Climate change
ENVI vote on ETS and CBAM risks seriously undermining European competitiveness
Today, the European Parliament’s environment committee (ENVI) voted on the reports for the reform of the Emission Trading Scheme and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, two of the most important...
Governance
CoFoE: Europe’s future will be built on its economic strength
European business engagement in the Conference on the Future of Europe
On Monday 9 May, Schuman Day, the Conference on the Future of Europe will officially close with a hand-over ceremony of 49 propo...