EUbusiness Week 805 top stories: Smaller businesses back to pre-crisis employment levels; UK’s EU agencies set for Amsterdam, Paris after Brexit; Online shopping rules aim to end geo-blocking; EU states endorse new rules for organic farming; Not enough prevention: EU health systems report; Brussels fines seatbelt, airbag cartel EUR 34m
Publisher’s Note
This week was Vocational Skills Week, with events across Europe providing opportunities to promote and recognise the importance of vocational skills acquired on the job.
But skills shortages and mismatches are having a negative impact on growth and job creation in smaller businesses, says employers’ organisation UEAPME representing Crafts and SMEs. These rely for their recruitment on modern education systems adapted to the needs of the labour market. “We need to improve the bridges between vocational training and general education at all levels,” says UEAPME Secretary General Veronique Willems.
More …
Regards,
Nick Prag
Publisher, EUbusiness
PARTNER OFFER Reach our global audience of business & political actors with your own mini-website on EUbusiness.com! – Send us press releases, blogs, guides, events & jobs – Details |
1. Smaller businesses back to pre-crisis employment levels
Employment levels and value added in Europe’s smaller businesses rose for the third consecutive year in 2016, exceeding 2008 levels for the first time since the financial crisis, an EU report showed Thursday.
More …
2. UK’s EU agencies set for Amsterdam, Paris after Brexit
EU 27 ministers on Monday selected Paris as the new seat for the European Banking Authority, and Amsterdam as the new seat for the European Medicines Agency, to follow Britain’s exit from the EU.
More …
3. Online shopping rules aim to end geo-blocking
New EU rules on online shopping, provisionally agreed by the EU institutions, mean that online buyers of goods or services from another EU country must be treated like local customers.
More …
4. EU states endorse new rules for organic farming
EU states’ representatives have endorsed a deal to overhaul existing rules on organic production and labelling of organic products, provisionally agreed with the European Parliament in June.
More …
5. Not enough prevention: EU health systems report
Only 3 per cent of EU countries’ health budgets is spent on prevention, with 80 per cent spent on treatment of diseases, the Commission reported Thursday in a set of 28 ‘country health profiles’.
More …
6. Brussels fines seatbelt, airbag cartel EUR 34m
The Commission has imposed fines of EUR 34 million on five car safety equipment suppliers to Japanese car manufacturers in the European Economic Area for breaching antitrust rules.
More …
EUROPEAN LAW
Bialowieza: Poland will have to pay a EUR 100,000 penalty per day if it continues banned logging activities in the EU-protected Bialowieza Forest, one of Europe’s last remaining primeval forests, the EU’s top court has ruled.
More …
Latest news from the European Court of Justice
EU law firms
More …
Inside the EU Institutions
Council Watch
Environmental reporting deal – Reform of emissions trading system – Ukraine sanctions – ASEM Foreign Ministers meeting – European Banking Authority relocated to Paris – European Medicines Agency to Amsterdam – African Union peace and security meeting – Digital for development conclusions – EU to beef up cybersecurity – Capital markets union: Council adopts securitisation rules – EUAM Ukraine: mission extended, budget approved – Entry-exit system adoption
More …
Council …
Commission Watch
European External Investment Plan – state of health in EU – disaster management – Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure Scoreboard – European Semester 2018 Autumn Package – Women in management – Eurostat figures: Economic accounts for agriculture, European SME Week, Sustainable Development Goals – Digital Single Market: ending unjustified geoblocking – European Pillar of Social Rights – European Solidarity Corps – women’s rights – the new organic Regulation – 5th African Union – European Union Summit
More …
Commission …
Parliament Watch
Open, independent and efficient EU administration – Finland: EUR 2.5m to help 1,500 former retail workers find new jobs – Greece: EUR 2.95m in job-search aid for 725 former retail employees – Stolen babies: MEPs urge Spain to solve all alleged cases – Prohibited fishing gear and more flexibility for EU fishermen – New rules on funding European political parties – More online TV and radio across borders – EU-wide remedies against defective digital goods – Glyphosate: MEPs debate citizens’ call for a ban
More …
More …
EU diary
27 Nov: 15 years anniversary of the General Food Law
27-30 Nov: Personalising your health: a global imperative
27 Nov: Rapid risk assessment for animal disease outbreaks
27 Nov: European electricity regulation conference
27-30 Nov: European Parliament Committee Meetings
27 Nov: Foreign Affairs Council
28 Nov: Care homes for older Europeans
28 Nov: 5th EASA airworthiness directives workshop
28 Nov: European Tourism Day 2017
29 Nov: Empowering postal consumers
29-30 Nov: Cedefop ReferNet annual plenary meeting 2017
29-30 Nov: European Parliament plenary session
30 Nov-1 Dec: Competitiveness Council
30 Nov-1 Dec: Data anonymisation workshop
1 Dec: EU Refining Forum
The Week Ahead
Long-term diary
RESOURCES
EU Law Firms
Summaries of EU Legislation
EU Decision-Making
Treaties of the European Union
Key EU Legal Terms
Other news on EUbusiness this week
EU eggs keep free range status despite bird flu 23-Nov
Legal framework agreed for EU youth volunteer corps 21-Nov
Negotiators agree EU Budget for 2018 20-Nov
EUbusiness Community
PROMOTE YOUR COMPANY ON EUBUSINESS |
Breaking News
EU authorities consider joint investigation into Uber hack (Financial Times)
Press
SMEs are still the driving force of European economy
EPF welcomes European Medicines Agency in Amsterdam
ESRA, CIUS call for access to sugar in EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement
Retail & wholesale press for progress on better online tools for SMEs
Only one Week to Register for the 18th Annual Military Airlift and Air-to-Air Refuelling Conference
Social dimension needed for more jobs and fairness
More press …
Jobs
Legal Counsel, Council of Europe Development Bank
Senior Advocacy Advisor, Save the Children
Internal Market Affairs Officer, EFTA Surveillance Authority
Senior Policy Adviser, European Central Securities Depositories Association
Events and Communications Officer, City of London Corporation
Director Digital Infrastructure, Cyber Security & Privacy, DIGITALEUROPE
Policy Officer (Regional & Global Cooperation), European Youth Forum
More jobs …
Guides
rescEU: EU disaster management
First actions of EU’s External Investment Plan
New EU rules on organic farming
More …
More guides …
Events
30 Nov, The Hague: Third Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture
1 Dec, Brussels: BIM in Europe
5 Dec, London: London Info International 2017
6 Dec, Brussels: EPF Access Campaign Meeting
1 Feb, Warsaw: Mobile Deployable Communications 2018
1 Mar, Warsaw: 7th Forum of Biomass and Waste
More events …
Publications
Annual report on European SMEs 2016-2017
Air Quality in European cities – Urban PM2.5 Atlas
How To Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again)
More publications …
Links
EU portal to teach youngsters about tax issues
