Our confederation has launched a manifesto calling upon the European Union’s institutions, member states, political families, business community, and civil society to prioritize a Green, Digital, and – most of all – A COMPETITIVE Transition of the European Industry with realistic targets, timeframes, and technological openness.
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n Friday, Feb. 9th 2024, the Ambassadors of EU-Member States took note that several governments, among which Germany, Italy and Austria, decided to abstain from the vote on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME welcomed this decision very much.
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On November 27, 2023, the Board of European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME approved Mr. Christoph Ahlhaus as the new President and Mr Jorge Portugal, as the new Co-President of our confederation. On the same occasion, our board also welcomed two new members of our confederation: the European DIGITAL SME Alliance as a full member and the Central Asia Business Council as an associated member.
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The Eurobarometer has recently published an interesting analysis of skills shortages in Europe. One of the main problems is finding technical staff.
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European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME welcomes the SME-Relief Package package. This Relief Package, e.g. includes a clear idea of when and how the Once Only Principle that we have asked for again recently in our most industrialized members’ Manifesto of the Real Economy for a Realistic Industry Policy will be put in place
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The European Parliament discusses this week the REPowerEU Plan as the “green” response to the hardships and global energy market disruption caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It should revise the Commission’s proposal adding temporary financial assistance to SMEs to support them if the situation worsens
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Has someone considered the political price we will have to pay if we don’t get the SMEs on board? Is it that difficult to admit that the project of climate neutrality needs to get the majority of SMEs on board, and that means helping them to do so as best and as fast as possible without pressing them with artificial market interventions into economic failure?
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This last week should have brought a great answer to SMEs needs for a response to the energy crisis. We hoped EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen would have announced some severe measures to do everything to reduce energy prices as soon as possible during her State of the Union Speech (the so-called SOTEU) on Wednesday 14 September in Strasbourg. It seems that no strong signal came from this speech.
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There is no “European Central Bank for gas”, and no Mario Draghi is leading it like 10 years ago when he stated that the ECB would do “whatever it takes” to defend the Euro. But we definitely need now a common European answer to the peaking prices of energy that are putting SMEs on their knees.
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Steel and Aluminium have seen a fierce increase in prices for already 3 years, but since February 2022 prices have been practically skyrocketing, certain products up to 400% more, with delivery times 12-18 or even 24 months.
European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME has asked immediately after the outbreak of Russia’s war on Ukraine and after the then immediately decided sanctions by the EU and by Russia to re-open the review procedure on steel and aluminium import limits due to these extraordinary circumstances. But until today DG TRADE did not re-open this review procedure.
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