Publications
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...
Innovation policy: status quo is not an option
Following today’s release of the strategic note Opportunity Now: Europe’s Mission to Innovate by the European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC) of the European Commission, the European business com...
BusinessEurope statement on Brexit
BusinessEurope respects the decision of the voters but regrets that the United Kingdom chose to leave the European Union.
BusinessEurope President Emma Marcegaglia commented: "The European busin...
Company law
Towards an effective EU insolvency framework
Key messages
BUSINESSEUROPE is generally supportive of a second chance approach to insolvency in the EU which is why it welcomed the 2014 Commission recommendation on business failure and insolvenc...