Publications
Economy and finance
Multilateral / WTO
11th WTO Ministerial Conference: business calls for a strong WTO, against protectionism, for the benefit of all
Ahead of the 11th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on 10-14 December in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Council of Presidents of BusinessEurope adopted a Statement that reiter...
Multilateral / WTO
EU single market
Data protection
The proposal for a Cybersecurity Act – a BusinessEurope position paper
Key messages
No one-size-fits-all certification scheme can apply to all connected technologies or the risks they face. The certification framework cannot pre-prescribe a list of elements to be incl...
Consumers/marketing
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&...
Digital economy
The proposal for a free flow of data regulation – a BusinessEurope position paper
Key messages
Unjustified national localisation measures should no longer restrict the free movement of data. Existing national measures that are unjustified and run counter to this principle should...
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...
EU social dialogue
Social summit for fair jobs and growth, Gothenburg – Joint statement of the European social partners
Europe is one of the best places to live, work and do business in the world because our social market economies combine free markets, private initiative, economic freedoms, free movement of people and...
BusinessEurope and CBI statements following meeting of European business groups with the UK Prime Minister
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The CBI and business groups from across Europe, representing millions of employees, met with UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday (13 November).
They discussed the importa...
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...