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Corporate Due Diligence European Parliament vote: Chambers call for simplicity and proportionality.
Corporate Due Diligence European Parliament vote: Chambers call for simplicity and proportionality.
Reacting to today’s European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee’s vote on Corporate Due Dilig...
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Global Chamber Platform highlights key recommendations for Italian B20
In line with key recommendations in its recently published global economic survey 2021, the Global Chamber Platform (GCP) issued its main recommendations to the Italian B20, for a swift, inclusive a...
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New Global Chamber Platform survey: business expects 2021 growth to exceed economic forecasts
The newly released Global Economic Survey 2021 signals strong optimism from the Global Chamber Platform (GCP) for a return of economic growth this year. While the World Bank expects a 4 % GDP growth r...
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EUROCHAMBRES welcomes Brexit trade deal
EUROCHAMBRES, representing over 20 million European businesses, has warmly welcomed news of a breakthrough in negotiations on an EU:UK trade deal, just a week before the transition period ends. The Eu...
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Digital Services Act: Chambers cautiously optimistic about new proposed e-commerce framework
EUROCHAMBRES has welcomed the balanced approach taken by the European Commission with today’s proposal for a Regulation on a Single Market for Digital Services, which takes a forward-looking approac...
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EUROCHAMBRES launches 10 key recommendations to successfully implement the European Green Deal
Building on the ambition demonstrated by the European Council last week to drive the sustainable transition of the economy, EUROCHAMBRES today presented 10 key recommendations to enable a successful i...
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EUROCHAMBRES calls on leaders to ‘mind the gap’ between crisis and recovery
In the run-up to crucial European Council and European Central Bank meetings on 10 December, EUROCHAMBRES has underlined the need to maintain measures in support of the many businesses throughout Euro...
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The Capital Markets Union is crucial for Europe’s recovery
EUROCHAMBRES, the association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry, takes note of the Council conclusions on the Capital Markets Union (CMU) Action Plan, as fully functioning capital markets...
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Council conclusions on Human Rights and Decent Work in Global Supply Chains: EUROCHAMBRES cautions against disproportionate burdens on SMEs
Reacting to the Council conclusions on Human Rights and Decent Work in Global Supply Chains published today, EUROCHAMBRES has underlined the importance of avoiding disproportionate requirements on SME...
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New Rules on Collective Redress welcome, but are a mixed bag
Today’s European Parliament vote on collective redress obliges all member states to introduce systems to remedy mass harm situations. While welcoming efforts to ensure effective redress possibilitie...
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The Global Chamber Platform urges the G20 to commit to swift joint action to mitigate economic fallout of COVID-19
The Global Chamber Platform has welcomed the pledge of G20 leaders to cooperate on global recovery action plans, but emphasizes the importance of effective and holistic policies and measures to delive...
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Unacceptable blocking of EU recovery package must be main issue for European Council tomorrow
EUROCHAMBRES, the European association of chambers of commerce & industry, has highlighted the extreme importance of tomorrow’s European Council video conference on the EU’s COVID-19 response....
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Implementation of EU Trade agreements must become top priority
EUROCHAMBRES strongly welcomes the publication of the 2020 annual Trade Implementation report by the European Commission. These reports are an essential tool to monitor the performance of our trade ag...
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European businesses forecast very challenging 2021 in major new survey
The 28th annual edition of the EUROCHAMBRES Economic Survey (EES2021) reveals the scale of the impact of COVID-19 on businesses across Europe, which predict a very difficult year ahead. The findings...
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EUROCHAMBRES calls for free trade between EU and Turkey and avoidance of boycotts on EU products
EUROCHAMBRES has today called for every effort to be made to ensure free trade between the EU and Turkey, and underlined its opposition to economic barriers, including boycotts of EU products.
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#RebootingEurope: 3-day online series concludes with ‘enable businesses to drive Europe’s recovery’ message to EU Summit
Concluding the Rebooting Europe series of online events, EUROCHAMBRES President, Christoph Leitl, underlined to EU leaders meeting tomorrow the importance of an unambiguously business-friendly approac...
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EU Climate Law: Give businesses the tools to comply
Reacting to yesterday’s European Parliament plenary vote on the proposed EU Climate Law, EUROCHAMBRES underlined that unilaterally raising the 2030 emission reduction targets does not per se lead to...
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EU SME Strategy as a driver of Europe’s recovery
Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) make a crucial contribution to the EU and are the main source of growth and innovation across the economy. The SME Strategy published by the European Comm...
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Competitiveness Council: Chambers welcome focus on Single Market and SMEs
EUROCHAMBRES welcomed the strong signals on the single market and SMEs set out in the Competitiveness Council online meeting conclusions published today. A coordinated approach to COVID-19 related res...
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Climate target plan must be based on free market fundamentals and multilateral cooperation
EUROCHAMBRES warns that an increase in emission reduction targets, as announced in today’s 2030 Climate Target Plan, will not alone be enough to combat man-made global warming and risk creating addi...
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State of the European Union: economic recovery must be at the heart of the EU policy agenda
EUROCHAMBRES President Christoph Leitl drew many positives from President von der Leyen’s SOTEU address today but stressed the need to ensure that the economic recovery is at the heart of the Commis...
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ENVI sets unrealistic climate targets at risk of existing merely on paper
EUROCHAMBRES has expressed concern that yesterday‘s vote in the ENVI Committee of the European Parliament to cut EU greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2030 goes against the business community’s ne...