At the outset of a new legislative cycle, European business lobbies, sector-specific trade associations and individual companies are all setting out their recommendations and demands to the new MEPs and the incoming European Commission. There is an element of formalistic ritual to this process. Some of it is about using the external focus to agree objectives inside the organisation. But this time around there is also an urgent conviction that Europe has to raise its game, unless it is to lose out in the global competitiveness stakes to the United States, China and Brazil. Rightly or wrongly, European businesses believe …read more
Source: European Voice
