Publications
Financing research and innovation
BusinessEurope comments on Horizon Europe
KEY MESSAGES
BusinessEurope acknowledges the European Commission’s efforts to increase spending on research and innovation but would have liked to see even more ambition. The proposal is not...
Access to finance / financial affairs
Financing research and innovation
Climate change
Climate negotiations: business community concerned about slow progress
The latest round of the United Nations climate change negotiations – the Bonn climate change conference – finished yesterday in Bonn, Germany. BusinessEurope is concerned about the slow pr...
Circular economy
Plastics strategy – Letters from Markus J. Beyrer ahead of the Environment Council meeting on 5 March 2018
The plastics strategy is an extremely important file for European business at large. At first reading, BusinessEurope welcomed the European Commission's proposal as published on 16 January 2018, b...
Climate change
The future of low-emission mobility – a BusinessEurope position paper
Key messages
Business at large recognises the need to transition to low emission mobility both in Europe and globally, with transformations occurring that affect all value chains.
Regardless of th...
Financing research and innovation
Energy
EU energy efficiency proposal needs a more realistic target and more flexibility
Today, the European Parliament voted on the energy efficiency proposal, one of the key building blocks of the Clean Energy Package. The Parliament adopted the EU’s energy efficiency binding targ...
Circular economy
EU Plastics Strategy – ambitious targets with a balanced approach
Today, the European Commission took an important step forward in the Circular Economy Action Plan with a publication of the Plastics Strategy. The Strategy settles an ambitious target – by 2030,...
Economy and finance
Financing research and innovation
EU research and innovation: 28 industry leaders call for ambitious funding programmes
Today, 28 leaders of large multinational companies in Europe published a statement showing their full support to scale up ambition for the next flagship EU research and innovation funding programme (F...
Financing research and innovation
EU research & innovation funding programmes matter for companies! – CEOs statement on Horizon Europe
We, the leaders of companies, are strongly committed to EU research & innovation (R&I) funding programmes. Alongside other framework conditions, EU R&I funding programmes play a&...
Climate change
COP23: Good on stakeholder engagement, slow on progress at global climate negotiations
Negotiators from almost 200 countries managed to make some steps in the right direction during their two-week meeting at the annual climate change conference in Bonn (COP23).
European business had ur...
Climate change
EU ETS reform deal: Strong on ambition, less so on protection
Today EU negotiators reached a provisional agreement on the reform of the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS).
BusinessEurope acknowledges that the negotiators have made some steps in the righ...
Climate change
Climate conference COP23: We need progress and transparency
European business expects substantial progress to be made at the climate conference starting on Monday in Bonn (COP23). Under the Fijian Presidency, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...