Publications
Economy and finance
EU economic governance review – a BusinessEurope position paper
Key messages
Whilst the immediate concern is for policy-makers to avoid any premature unwinding of measures to support business and workers, in the medium term Member States must return to fiscally...
Economy and finance
Corporate tax should support growth and investment
Following the publication today by the European Commission of its communication on “Business Taxation for the 21st Century”, BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer made the followin...
Economy and finance
Economy and finance
Economy and finance
Recommendations for the ECB’s strategic review
Key messages
European companies need predictable and stable conditions to conduct their business. We strongly support the ECB’s mandate of guaranteeing price stability, and urge the ECB to explor...
Climate change
EU leaders agreement is oxygen for Europe’s economic recovery
Today’s agreement reached by the European Council and all EU Member States on the long-term EU budget (MFF 2021-2027) and the Next Generation EU recovery fund is a major step forward to support our...
Economy and finance
OECD reports on the Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 blueprints – BusinessEurope’s reply to the public consultation
Key messages
We believe that the blueprints demonstrate the significant and ambitious progress the OECD is making in reforming the international corporate tax system to address the tax challenges o...
Access to finance / financial affairs
Access to finance / financial affairs
Economy and finance
EU agreement on long-term budget is a key step forward for Europe
Following today’s agreement reached by the European Parliament and the Council on the EU Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-2027, BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer said: "T...
Economy and finance
BusinessEurope Economic Outlook Autumn 2020 – Protecting Europe’s fragile recovery
Following the deepest falls in output since the Great Depression in this spring, the EU economy began its recovery during the summer, but the path back to pre-COVID levels of output is likely to be lo...
Economy and finance
Rapid implementation of EU recovery instrument is key in enduring COVID crisis
Political leaders should avoid any premature unwinding of economic support
EU economic output might be 3% below pre-crisis level by end 2021
Falls in hours worked equivalent to 18 million full time...
Access to finance / financial affairs
Access to finance / financial affairs
Economy and finance
Determined financial and non-financial European response essential to overcome corona crisis
Today, the European Commission set out its European economic recovery plan.
BusinessEurope President Pierre Gattaz said: “The recovery instrument, 'Next Generation EU', set out by...
Economy and finance
EU recovery fund should restore business confidence
Tomorrow, the European Commission will publish its urgently awaited European economic recovery plan.
BusinessEurope’s Director General Markus J. Beyrer said: “Businesses across the E...
Access to finance / financial affairs
Economy and finance
Coordinated fiscal stimulus necessary to deliver full recovery by end 2021
Support business investment, consumer demand, maintain employment
Today, BusinessEurope published its Spring Economic Outlook 2020 in view of the economic crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bus...
Economy and finance
BusinessEurope Economic Outlook Spring 2020 – Strengthening the economic recovery
The EU, in common with the rest of the global economy, is presently experiencing the deepest recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The imposition of comprehensive lockdowns has caused nat...