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🇪🇺 📝 The European Commission pledged to reduce administrative burden, enhance interinstitutional cooperation, and ensure better regulation. 🇺🇸 Donald Trump appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to "cut wasteful government expenditure" and "slash excess regulations," among other objectives. ❌ Easy way is not the European way: ▪ No promises have been made regarding staff reductions - quite the opposite. ▪ Henna Virkkunen made modest and realistic statements about reducing the administrative burden in her EP hearings. No big promises before collecting the data and seeing where the administrative burden can be reduced. ❗ It's important that these plans don't turn into another exercise in red-tape-cut-washing: 1️⃣ Better regulation principles must be applied with greater strength, transparency, and stakeholder involvement. 2️⃣ New regulations should improve conditions for everyone - not make it equally difficult for everybody. 3️⃣ European companies are pragmatic - they comply and are absolutely happy with size-based exemptions until they scale. Then, a relocation option is considered. The EU has to plan for the success of European business, long term.  4️⃣ Overregulation impacts national administrations too. The administrative apparatus can only expand so much before it becomes a target for populists advocating simple solutions to complex problems 5️⃣ The EU is already far ahead of everyone in terms of consumer protection and regulatory guardrails. The race isn’t about new regulations - the race should be about achieving global impact, economic development, and winning the hearts and minds of the brightest talent. https://lnkd.in/d5kgwNiM

Join us on 19 November, 08:00 AM CET at the European Parliament in Brussels for the 🇪🇺 “SME Connect Forum for Better Regulation: Improving Legislative Processes”. A warm welcome to our host Sven Simon MEP, Chair of the AFCO Committee, and to experts joining - Michael Wimmer, Wolfgang Hiller, Ralph Kamphöner, Eva Rytter Sunesen and Michael Jäger, Lusyne Kesziszjan, Peter Loosen, Patrick Coppens. Agenda & registration ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e9bpqscF Better regulation remains a priority within the EU, yet often-mentioned criticism highlights the bureaucratic hurdles SMEs face due to complex processes, unclear legislative language, insufficient impact assessments, and overlapping laws. This forum will explore smarter, more transparent legislative approaches, emphasizing the “Think Small First” principle, reinforcing the SME Test, and fostering constructive dialogue to uncover the challenges. Better Regulation Forum was initiated by Taxpayers Association of Europe, Związek Przedsiębiorców i Pracodawców / Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers, European Economic Senate, Danske Iværksættere - Danish Entrepreneurs, and the European Enterprise Alliance.

Join us on November 19 at 08:00 AM CET at the European Parliament in Brussels for the “SME Connect Forum for Better Regulation: Enhancing Legislative Processes for SMEs”! 🇪🇺 Representing the European Enterprise Alliance and Związek Przedsiębiorców i Pracodawców / Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers, Lusyne Kesziszjan will join host Sven Simon MEP, Chair of the AFCO Committee, along with leading voices from across the EU regulatory landscape, including Michael Wimmer, Wolfgang Hiller, Ralph Kamphöner, Eva Rytter Sunesen, Michael Jäger, Peter Loosen, and Patrick Coppens. Get ready to join industry leaders and policymakers as we tackle some of the most significant regulatory challenges impacting SMEs today. This forum will focus on rethinking the legislative process to create a more accessible, practical, and growth-oriented framework for small and medium-sized businesses. From simplifying language to ensuring thorough impact assessments, we aim to forge pathways that empower SMEs to flourish within the EU market. Join us in this essential conversation to drive smarter, competitive regulation across Europe. This forum is a collaborative initiative by the SME Connect, European Enterprise Alliance, Związek Przedsiębiorców i Pracodawców / Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers, Taxpayers Association of Europe, the European Economic Senate, and Danske Iværksættere - Danish Entrepreneurs. ➡️ See the full agenda & register here: https://lnkd.in/e9bpqscF

EuropeanIssuers closely followed this morning's Hearing of Commissioner-designate Maria Luís #Albuquerque at the European Parliament. We praise the Commissioner-designate focus on an important set of key priorities underlined in our Key Messages for the New Legislative Cycle: 🔸 Strengthening European competitiveness to increase prosperity, via a reduction of regulatory burden and compliance costs for companies. 🔸Proportionality and usability of reporting requirements to account for the capabilities of listed SMEs and transition needs of businesses. 🔸The emphasis on the implementation of existing legislation, making sure the sustainable finance framework is fit for purpose. ➡️ Read our key priorities here: https://lnkd.in/ecq63Yxi

🇪🇺 Reducing administrative burdens is essential to empower businesses across Europe, particularly SMEs. But how can this be achieved effectively while maintaining critical objectives, such as the EU’s climate goals? 🔎 Accountancy Europe has identified 10 key principles to guide policymakers in reducing administrative complexity without compromising on broader ambitions. 📢 We’re calling for a clearer legislative framework with predictable rules, consistent implementation across Member States, and more effective stakeholder engagement. By focusing on practical, real-world needs, simplification can become a dynamic, ongoing process that actually works for businesses whilst not creating additional uncertainty. 💡 Key suggestions include: 👉 Simplified and consistent legislation for predictability and stability. 👉 Clear, actionable goals to reduce unnecessary burdens. 👉 Practical, impact-assessed solutions over short-term political gains. 👉 A coordinated, holistic approach across EU institutions. 👉 Stakeholder consultations that address real-world challenges. 📖 Discover our full #statement and learn how these principles can help reduce burdens and create a more business-friendly Europe: https://lnkd.in/dRYD4J_G. #EU #BusinessSimplification #PolicyReform #AdministrativeBurden #Innovation #GreenDeal #EUPolicy #Sustainability Johan Barros, European Commission

We wrapped up an incredibly productive four years with the European Commission #FitforFuturePlatform! ✨ It’s been an honour and pleasure contributing to real, positive changes - from reducing red tape to streamlining policies in areas like procurement, the twin digital and green transformation, taxation, state aid, and more. 📈🌱 One of our biggest challenges was helping the European Commission in its efforts to cut reporting requirements while maintaining high standards for citizens and businesses. 💪 This work directly supports #BetterRegulation and a stronger, more competitive Europe. 🇪🇺 Read more about what we’ve achieved -> https://lnkd.in/eKmB4Vhm

The shift of focus from EU #GreenDeal to EU Competitiveness Deal has resulted in calls for significantly reduce reporting burden for companies. The #CSRD, #ESRS and #EUTaxonomy are currently being considered for potential simplification and alignment to achieve that. Is this the time of consolidating reporting requirements after years of expansion? Or will we see yet another round of added complexity? #AccountancyEurope has put together ten guiding principles that should be followed when identifying and assessing potential measures.

It's encouraging to read this report from European Parliamentary Research Service for the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, focusing on the impact of #twintransition EU legislation on #SMEs. It validates concerns expressed by Eurochambres and other business organisations about the capacity for smaller businesses to comply with and report on requirements imposed through EU legislation. With Ursula von der Leyen prioritizing burden reduction and regulatory simplification - a process in which MEPs have a very important role to play - this report provides evidence of the scale of the challenge, as well as clear recommendations on how to tackle it. The #ChamberNetwork is calling for #BetterRegulation to be a recurring theme in the forthcoming mission letters and hearings of the commissioners designate. I'm also proud to see the #Eurochambes 2011, 2013 and 2017 'SME Test Benchmark' analysis of the European Commission SME Test cited in the report, as well as the joint 2022 report with BusinessEurope and SMEunited. A new edition is under preparation by the 3 organisations and will be presented later this year. Thanks in particular to my colleague Giacomo Fersini for his excellent work on this. https://lnkd.in/ezhqHSkW

Really looking forward to this event! The topic of cross-border governance is one of enormous interest to the Centre for Cross Border Cooperation given its importance to what is now an external border of the EU (Ireland-Northern Ireland). The effectiveness of cross-border governance impacts on citizens' mobility (at the heart of our Border People project), and on cooperation for mutual benefit (the focus of our new S2@25 project, a project supported by #PEACEPLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) - European Funding). S2@25 is working with the cross-border bodies established under Strand 2 of the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement to highlight their collective impacts over the last 25 years, and to set out how they can collectively contribute to addressing the longer-term priorities of the two administrations on the island of Ireland.

It would be reasonable to believe that #cross_border_regions in the EU would be great nodes of opportunities as people and firms here can benefit from resources from both sides of the border. At least my experience of living in the Malmö-Copenhagen border would make me believe so. Yet, our research tells us that, on average, cross-border regions have poorer economic and public service outcomes than non-cross-border regions due to (among others) significant administrative and legal barriers. If you are interested in this conversation and want to learn about the experiences of border regions and their efforts towards #co_development, join us on 25 November for the International Dialogue Event for the 'Building more resilient cross-border regions' project.