🗨️ Timely & effective updating of the curriculum is essential if education and training courses are to remain up-to-date and responsive to evolving labour market needs. This is a key element in reducing structural #skills mismatches.

📍 #EuropeanYearOfSkills

🤔 Interested in learning “How to turn Europe into an SME superpower”? Join our in-person SME Roadshow in The Hague on 15 May – together with European and national institutions, SMEs and entrepreneurs from across Europe.

📍 Don't miss out - register here by 8 May 👉

📣 President Fredrik Persson stresses the need for a greater focus on #growth and #competitiveness in the EU in order to support a budget that can meet our widening challenges at the #EUBudget Conference 2024.

🇪🇺 EU social partners’ hearing with the European Commission on #eDeclaration : A single, digital tool will reduce the administrative burden on businesses and facilitate compliance.

📉 This is also a good chance for the Commission to keep its promise of reducing administrative burdens

“Don’t make it a hassle to invest in Europe” – the key message from President Fredrik Persson in his interview with Angela Barnes on euronews “The Big Question”.

#RebootEurope outlines our concrete proposals 🔃

Watch the full interview here ⤵️ euronews.com/business/2024/…

💬 'Europe needs to prove to the world that we can decarbonise without deindustrialising'

- stressed our DG Markus J Beyrer at the #G7 Industry Stakeholders Conference. We therefore need an #IndustrialDeal to flank the #EUGreenDeal in order to make it a growth program

#B7

#RebootEurope | Why does the 🇪🇺 matter to companies? What are their expectations for the next political cycle? 👉 Indorama Ventures, a world-class sustainable chemical company with many European industrial productions from Spain to Lithuania. #EUelections2024

🇪🇺 Due diligence text was adopted today despite many unresolved problems. We regret the absence of sufficient safeguards to protect the internal market from legal fragmentation. Businesses, including SMEs, will be heavily impacted.

👉We continue to call for workable, harmonised

📢 While challenges remain, we welcome that the agreed text takes some crucial steps towards ensuring better complementarity of #reuse and #recycling .

🔎 Harmonised implementation will now be key. We call on Member states to avoid initiatives that would fragment the

📣Today’s European Parliament approval of the revised #TEN_T Regulation is a crucial step in addressing the remaining infrastructure gaps and bottlenecks.

➡️Now is the time for the 🇪🇺 and Member States to implement the agreed objectives effectively to ensure an EU-wide, efficient,

📍We were delighted to discuss our study with Employers Group of the EESC

🤔~60% of responding companies in our study wait up to 6 years for permitting approval, and 83% find complexity and duration an obstacle to investment.

Read our key recommendations for the next EU cycle to make

📍A good momentum for the #SingleMarket integration: our Internal Market Committee shares preliminary views on Letta's report with Elisabeth Werner, Deputy Secretary-General of the European Commission

🗨️ Good discussion with Enrico Letta on the importance of strengthening the EU #SingleMarket and the need for stronger Transatlantic market integration - 'Transatlantic Single Market' 🌐

🇺🇦🇪🇺 Today’s vote European Parliament clears the way for the renewal of the EU’s autonomous #trade measures

✔️ crucial to sustain the Ukrainian #economy and to support businesses on the ground

#EPlenary