As catastrophic wildfires sweep across Southern Europe, WWF warns that the EU is sleepwalking into a permanent wildfire crisis while simultaneously weakening key environmental protections that help safeguard people, economies and nature from climate impacts.
“While SMEunited recognises the importance of enhancing the quality of traineeships, we consider the proposed Directive as counterproductive, particularly for SMEs.”
EuroCommerce urges the co-legislators to ‘Save the Single Market’!
EuroCommerce is deeply concerned by the weakening of the Single Market after today’s European Parliament’s plenary vote that accepted opening negotiations based on the Agriculture Committee’s report on cross-border enforcement of rules on unfair trading practices (UTPs).
In today’s annual State of the Union address, President Ursula von der Leyen emphasised the need for the EU to step up its efforts on climate action – for scientific, economic and security reasons -by continuing the progress made by the European Green Deal, setting ambitious intermediate climate targets, and channelling investment into climate adaptation, resilience and nature based solutions.
Commission’s Recommendation on the VSME sends a strong and positive signal to the market
SMEunited strongly welcomes the Commission recommendation on the Voluntary Standard for SMES (VSME) on sustainability reporting.
As Southern Europe faces increasingly destructive wildfires, a new paper by WWF and BirdLife Europe calls on European governments to shift from reactive firefighting to a proactive and integrated approach to wildfire prevention.
European Central Bank introduces climate factor in its collateral framework in new landmark measure
In an effort to address climate-related financial risks, the European Central Bank (ECB) is introducing a climate factor in its collateral framework, starting in the second half of 2026.















