European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME Celebrated Its 30th Anniversary!

On July 12th 2022, we celebrated at the Residence Palace in Brussels the 30th anniversary of our confederation, which brings together associations from 33 countries, 2.1 million voluntarily associated small and medium-sized companies and 18 million employees.

The evening, our annual SME Summer Party, was attended by more than one hundred guests, including senior European policymakers, associations directors, and entrepreneurs.

Our and CONFAPI’s President Maurizio Casasco, together with our co-president and Chairman of BVMW Markus Jerger welcomed them all. They opened the stage for our keynote speakers, including Antonio Tajani, President of the Constitutional Affairs Commission of the European Parliament, Nicola Beer, Vice-President of the European Parliament, Stefano Mallia, President of the EESC employers’ group, the Economic Committee of which Casasco representing Confapi is a member, Cècile Billaux of the DG for international partnerships, Ivan Štefanec, president of SME Europe, Walter Goetz, Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Valean, e Peter Dröll, Director for Prosperity and Industrial Research di DG RTD and many others.

The evening was also the occasion to give a warm welcome to CEA PME to our new members European Business Association of Ukraine, represented at the party by its Director Svetlana Mikhaylovska, and AMSP in the Czech Republic, which each represents more than 300,000 companies and extend the range of action of the European Confederation to 33 countries of the Continent.

We are also very happy to announce that Mr Stefan Moritz, until now the Managing Director of our confederation, has been officially nominated as its new Secretary General.

During the evening, all the keynote speeches focused on the need to strengthen the voice of SMEs in Europe. SMEs represent 99.8% of all EU companies, 52% of the added value and 64% of the employed. We organised this convivial experience also to remind national and European policymakers of the importance of supporting the companies that are the backbone of the European economy

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