The Belgian Agency AEF-Europe, in charge of supervising the ERASMUS+ projects with Belgian Lead Partners has approved the project proposal “European Dual System (EU-DualS)” presented by European Entrepreneuers CEA-PME, CONFAPI, ADEGI, BVMW and F-BB!
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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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Thanks to the collaboration of our Basque Member ADEGI, Basque graduates under the age of 30 can access a scholarship sponsoring for internships in SMEs in foreign countries (mainly EU). SMEs from all over Europe searched to offer a placement.
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The Youth Summit 2015 on last March 26th 2015 in Brussels, organised by European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME, Friedrich-Ebert Foundation and the CEMR-German Section, was a great success, particularly looking at the numbers of mostly young attendees, but also for the very high level of speakers and discussants, that gave to the summit the quality inputs that it needed.
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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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European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME has celebrated its annual General Assembly from November 7th to 9th 2014 in Rome. Organised by CONFAPI, the meeting took place in Rome’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry near the Hadrian’s Temple in the centre of Rome.
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