Publications
Industrial relations and EU labour law
BusinessEurope offers to negotiate with ETUC on written statement directive
In its second-stage consultation of the social partners issued on 21 September 2017, the European Commission asked the European social partners whether they are willing to enter into negotiations with...
Data protection
EU Parliament locks-in poor mandate ahead of e-Privacy negotiations
Today, the European Parliament narrowly confirmed the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Committee’s mandate to begin trilogues on its e-Privacy report. Parliament sent its early s...
Posting of workers: a bad compromise driven by political symbolism
Yesterday, the EPSCO Council reached a general approach on a revision of the posting directive. We are deeply concerned about key aspects of the deal. The compromise reached foresees to reduce the dur...
Data protection
Divided e-Privacy vote demonstrates lack of Parliament debate
Today, the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Committee in the European Parliament narrowly voted its e-Privacy report through. This demonstrated its fragmented position before Council n...
EU social dialogue
Tripartite Social Summit on 18 October 2017 – Speech by Emma Marcegaglia, President of BusinessEurope
Shaping Europe’s future: Strengthening resilience and providing economic and social progress for all...
EU single market
Comments on SMIT, Single Digital Gateway and SOLVIT
The Commission “Compliance Package”
proposals of 2 May 2017
DETAILED REMARKS ON:
THE SINGLE MARKET INFORMATION TOOL (SMIT) PROPOSAL
THE SINGLE DIGITAL GATEWAY (SDG) PROPOSAL
THE ACT...
Financing research and innovation
Views on the “LAB-FAB-APP” report
Key messages
The “LAB-FAB-APP” report sets out a clear picture of what the EU’s priority is: to overcome its innovation deficit. Knowledge needs to be turned into new products, so...
Consumers/marketing
Education, training and skills
EU employers: For better apprenticeships, better policy needed
Today the European Commission has published its proposal for a Council Recommendation on an EU Framework for Quality and Effective Apprenticeships. BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyre...
Economy and finance
EU Commission VAT proposals can lead to less complexity, less fragmentation, less tax fraud and evasion
Following the release of the European Commission proposals on the definitive VAT system for cross-border trade within the EU single market, BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer made the fo...
EU Commission’s package will improve implementation of public procurement
On Tuesday 3 October, the European Commission presented a non-legislative Public Procurement Package. BusinessEurope supports the Commission’s continued efforts to ensure that the public procurement...
Trade
New EU Anti-Dumping Methodology – level of protection maintained
Following the agreement of the negotiators of the European Parliament and the Council today in Strasbourg, Markus J. Beyrer, Director General of BusinessEurope said: “Fair trade is the nece...
Access to finance / financial affairs
Digital economy
A message to Tallinn: unleash Europe’s data economy
Industry calls for an end to data localisation
Today, BusinessEurope and Noerr LLP released a study on legal issues of digitalisation in Europe. As Europe’s leaders meet at the Digital Summit in Ta...