The EU Council has given its final stamp to a new EU law harmonising key aspects of insolvency rules across the EU, reducing the complexity of different national insolvency rules.
Recent geopolitical developments in the Middle East are increasing uncertainty in global markets and could have important implications for European retailers, wholesalers and consumers.
The European Sustainability Reporting Standards are one of the few tools that allow EU citizens to keep an eye on the real actions of large companies and their impacts on communities and the planet.
“Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are key actors in the European industrial supply chains. The proposal for an Industrial Accelerator Act should now bring positive trickle down effects from specific measures for strategic sectors to the wider economy”, underlined SMEunited Secretary General Véronique Willems in a first reaction to today’s proposal by the European Commission.
The European Parliament has given its backing to new laws to boost the competitiveness of EU so-called small ‘mid-cap’ (SMC) enterprises as they grow beyond SME status with targeted measures.
EuroCommerce, the European association of retailers and wholesalers, urges the Commission to act to protect the EU Single Market against the extra-territorial application of national law in the context of European retail alliances.
The EU Council has given the final green light to a simplification of the sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements for companies, as part of its ‘Omnibus’ red tape cutting package.
