The Head of Unit B5 “Broadband” of DG CONNECT, Ms. Anna Krzyzanowska, invited European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME to know our point of view on broadband development in the EU after 2020.
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Good news from the European Parliament: During its plenary session of last Wednesday, July 8th, the parliamentary majority of EPP, ALDE and S&D approved the recommendations of the EP to the Commission for the ongoing TTIP negotiations with the US.
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On Tuesday Feb. 24th 2015, European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME president, Mr. Mario Ohoven, contributed as a representative of European SMEs to a public audition of the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). He presented BVMW’s point of view on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP), which is currently negotiated between the EU and the USA.
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On January 19th, CEA-PME representatives met with MEP Othmar Karas at his offices in the European Parliament. Mr. Karas, an Austrian representative of the European People’s Party, is since last year the president of the SME-Intergroup of the European Parliament, that gathers MEPs of all parliamentarian groups which are engaged in promoting SME-friendly EU-policies. This group meets regularly with representatives of SME confederations and SME stakeholders, in order to receive feedback from them on the Parliament’s and all EU-institutions’ activities.
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European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME (Confédération Européenne des Associations de Petites et Moyennes Entreprises) as a Brussels-based business federation actively acts for the interests of all its members, building up a network of important relationships with European decision makers. Direct contact to those who can take decision for Europe’s economy, and set rules that directly impacts the potentials of millions of European SMEs is a crucial aspect of our policy advocacy and public relations strategy.
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At the end of 2014 the new European Commission under Jean-Claude Juncker announced its plan for an investment package in order to “to get Europe growing again and get more people back to work”. The most important element of the plan consists in investment guarantees issued by the EU (EC, EIB, EIF) of € 21 billion, which are supposed to leverage approx. € 315 billion of other public and mainly private investments. Of these it is estimated in the plan that € 75 billion shall go to SMEs and mid-cap companies. And this excluded other crucial sectors for investment, like infrastructure (notably broadband and energy networks, transport infrastructure in industrial centres), education, R&D, renewable energy and energy efficiency.
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All European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME members approved on Nov. 8th unanimously a Petition of BVMW to the General Assembly that rejects all plans elaborated in 2014 by the leaving EU-Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs, Mr. Laszlo Andor, for a European unemplyment insurance, in form of a solidarity system between national social security systems.
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The principle of the EU’s Small Business Act was the central message that Mr. Mario Ohoven, the President of the European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME Confederation, sent to the new EU-Parliament and to the new EU-Commission from CEA-PME’s Annual Assembly in Rome in Nov. 7th 2014.
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