Publications
Bilateral relations
The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
CETA is the most ambitious and forward-looking agreement concluded by both the EU and Canada so far.
BusinessEurope’s brochure, which also includes sectorial views, gives an overview of expecte...
B7 Joint Statement to support free and open trading system
Keidanren
Confindustria
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
MEDEF
US Chamber of Commerce
CBI
BDI
BUSINESSEUROPE
We, the leading business organisations of the B7, are convinced that a free and open...
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...
ETUC – BusinessEurope joint declaration on China’s Market Economy Status
The European Union and China have a multidimensional economic relationship—we trade over 1 billion euro per day, we are negotiating an investment agreement, and we look forward to China’s accessio...
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...
Diversity and equal opportunities
Diversity is good for business – Promoting diversity is an added value for companies and society
European economies and companies must cope with demographic ageing, a shrinking workforce, paradoxically coexisting with significant unemployment, and increased pressure on public finances.
At the sa...
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...