12 Jan
Chapter News, News, Uncategorized

Speech by Vice-President Katainen to Bruegel Seminar: An Investment Plan for Europe

Brussels, 12 January 2015 Dear Guntram, dear participants, Many thanks for the opportunity to debate our investment plan. As a leading Central Banker said, it is the only plan around, so that means that we need to make it a good one. I would be happy to address your doubts and get your suggestions on how to make it better. The Commission has delivered fast. Less than two months after announcing its ambitious strategy to boost jobs and growth, the European Commission will...

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26 Nov
Uncategorized

Latvia’s Priorities for the EU Council Presidency

At a briefing with Ilze Juhansone, Latvian Permanent Representative to the EU, arranged in Thon Hotel in Brussels, Belgium on 21 November 2014, Latvian ambassador to EU underlined and described three main Latvian priorities for the coming country’s 6-months Presidency in the EU Council of Ministers.  For the first time since its accession to the EU in 2004, Latvia will assume the 6-month’s rotating presidency of the Council of Ministers from 1 January 2015. It will be a special presidency coming...

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17 Jun
Chapter News, News, Trade & TTIP Related, Uncategorized

Opportunity to Participate in SME Focused TTIP Survey

As negotiations towards an ambitious Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) move forward, the Atlantic Council is conducting research on the prospective impact of this agreement on small and medium-sized enterprises, like yours, in both the United States and European Union. SMEs represent the vast majority of all firms in both the US and EU and account for an outsized proportion of job creation, yet they face significant barriers when attempting to export their goods and services across the Atlantic....

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08 Nov
Chapter News, News, Uncategorized

G20 leaders must step up efforts to resist protectionism

  The OECD, WTO and UNCTAD have called on G20 governments to step up efforts to resist protectionism in the face of continuing high unemployment and a weak economic recovery.   In their eighth report to the G20, the organisations say that strengthened multilateral co-operation is needed and urge countries to show leadership in keeping markets open.   Readings: Read the News release. Read the Report. Read the Freedom of investment at the OECD.

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08 Nov
Member News, News, Uncategorized

French minister Fleur Pellerin launches the “Say OUI to France” campaign

In October, 2012, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ms. Fleur Pellerin, the French Minister Delegate with responsibility for SMEs, Innovation and the Digital Economy, held an early breakfast meeting with theUStechnology press to mark the launch of the joint INPI/IFA "Say OUI to France – Say OUI to innovation" campaign. The meeting was held on the fringes of EmTech, a major international trade show on emerging technologies organized by the MIT TechnologyReview. This is the signature to the new...

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