WELCOME TO
THE ALDE "BOOST SMEs" CAMPAIGN
HOMEPAGE
Towards a comprehensive European policy for small and medium sized enterprises
There are approximately 23 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the EU making up 99% of all businesses and providing two-thirds of all
private sector jobs. They represent the main driving force for economic growth, innovation, employment and social integration.
The EU has already done much to improve the situation for SMEs but a lot still remains to be done to reduce bureaucracy, simplify access to financial
instruments and improve SME access to European and international markets.
The ALDE group is determined to boost successful entrepreneurship in Europe and to further improve the framework conditions for SMEs in three priority areas
- Smart regulation and simplification of rules
- Easier financing
- Improved market access
Boost SMEs in the Digital Economy [SEMINAR]"
Time to make EU Emission Trading Scheme work
In the wake of Fukushima, the German decision to decommission its nuclear power stations by 2022 and the fastest-ever rise in global greenhouse gas emissions in 2010, the Liberal and Democrat Group (ALDE) in the European...
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Reforming the CAP for a new, greener Europe
George Lyon (Liberal Democrat, UK), ALDE Spokesman on Agriculture and author of Parliament's report on reforming the Common Agricultural Policy, has called for decisive reform and realignment of the CAP after 2013 to address the...
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A fair, green CAP comes one step closer - Lyon
ALDE Agriculture spokesman George Lyon MEP (UK, Liberal Democrat) has hailed a European Parliament vote as a "huge step" towards a fair, sustainable and green future for the Common Agricultural Policy.
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Industrial emissions limits tightened
The European Parliament's environment committee adopted a draft report today by Holger Krahmer (FDP, Germany) at second reading, recasting existing EU legislation on limits to industrial emissions - integrated pollution,...
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Forward Step for European Energy Policy: Affordable, Sustainable and Secure
Adina-Ioana Vălean MEP (Romania, PNL) has hailed today's European Parliament's vote in favour of enabling the European Commission to gather energy infrastructure information that will help shape future European energy...
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Post-Copenhagen: EU needs leading strategy
ALDE MEPs Corinne Lepage (MoDem, France) and Chris Davies (Liberal Democrat, UK) have called on the EU to be bolder in its strategy to help forge a legally binding global deal on carbon emission cuts in the wake of the failed...
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Copenhagen climate conference concludes on lowest common denominator
ALDE group leader, Guy Verhofstadt, manifested his bitter disappointment today at the conclusion of the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen that brought together a record number of countries with the urgent objective of...
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Copenhagen: EU must act now
Lena Ek MEP (Sweden, Centre Party) ALDE Spokesperson on Industry, Research and Energy and ALDE Environment Spokesman Chris Davies MEP (UK, Liberal Democrats) have returned from the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference and urged...
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UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen must avoid failure
Guy Verhofstadt, President of the Liberal & Democrat Group in the European Parliament, is calling on the Parties at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to put their differences aside and agree a binding, international...
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Zero energy buildings Crucial for Copenhagen - Hall, Ek
ALDE MEPs Fiona Hall (Liberal Democrat, UK) and Lena Ek (Centre Party, Sweden) have hailed an agreement on improving the energy efficiency of buildings as vital for allowing the EU to play its full role at December's Copenhagen...
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