News and information about the European Union’s policies for small and medium-sized businesses.
“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.
“SMEs contribute to resilient local ecosystems where they invest, provide quality jobs and safeguard resilience for our eastern border region, while supporting social cohesion”, stated SMEunited Secretary General Véronique Willems in reaction to the European Commission’s Communication on Eastern border regions.
Ahead of the Alden Biesen summit where EU leaders will gather to discuss the EU’s competitiveness, EuroCommerce, representing Europe’s retail and wholesale sector, urges the European Commission to place the Single Market, effective enforcement and regulatory simplification at the heart of its competitiveness agenda.
“If the EU is serious about sovereignty, security, and prosperity, ‘Think Small First’ must guide every political choice”, stressed Davide Galli, SMEunited President, ahead of the informal EU leaders’ retreat on competitiveness on 12 February.
hub.brussels, the Brussels Agency for Entrepreneurship, are looking to recruit a Financial Advisor, EU Programmes.
52.7% of EU enterprises used paid cloud computing services (i.e. online services used to access software, computing power, storage capacity, etc.) in 2025, marking a 7.4 percentage point (pp) increase compared with 2023.
The European Union (EU) has long recognised the critical role startups and scaleup businesses play in driving economic growth, creating jobs, and fostering innovation across its member states.
