The European Parliament Platform (EP) for small and medium -sized enterprises We are not continuing to put pressure on the EU institutions to improve the conditions for entrepreneurs who form the skeleton of the European economy. In an interview with TASR, this was said on Thursday by a former Slovak MEP and honorary chairman of the SME platform Ivan Štefanec.
Štefanec participated on Thursday in a working meeting of a group in charge of protecting the interests of small and medium -sized entrepreneurs in Europe. We chaired Europe for six years during our work in the European Parliament. Appreciates that During this period, the work of the platform founded by the European People’s Party (EPP), where about 60 deputies worked, The legislators from the factions of the Social Democrats, Liberals, the Reform Conservatives and even the Green Group also started to participate, because he said everyone was interested in making small and medium -sized businesses in Europe and contributing to improving competitiveness.
After the expiration of the parliamentary mandate, the EPP fraction left him the title of honorary chairman of SME Europe and, like other former MEPs from other Member States, participates in the platform meetings. The chairman was taken over by Swedish MEP Jörgen Warborn.
“What we consider to be the most important thing is to reduce bureaucracy. Therefore, we are continuing pressure on the European Commission and the European Parliament to reduce the administrative burden for entrepreneurs. We are negotiating with them and I believe it will be successful,” explained. He stated that the aim is not the “one for one” scheme, that is, by introducing a new regulation to erase some older, but to replace each new legal standard with two or several older ones, which is realistic.
We are fought for the completion of the EU Single Market, While Štefanec claims that the “greatest victory” of the integration of the Member States does not use sufficiently and some countries are pushing national interests above the common all -time.
“Especially in the field of services we need to complete the single market, it is telecommunications, transport and financial services. All, entrepreneurs and citizens will receive at the completion of the single market,“He said.
Thirdly, in his words, Europe is dealing with the topic of applying artificial intelligence in practice, because it is an area that changes everything. “Artificial intelligence will also be a decisive element, depending on how we can do it, whether we will be better and will help improve our competitiveness. I believe that the Union will succeed. We have created a regulatory framework and now it is important to apply it not to brake our competitiveness, but, on the contrary, to improve the EU’s position in the world, “Štefanec described the situation.
The Exposlane recalled that we are representation in every EU Member State through business associations, In the European Commission, the clutch is an honorary member of this group, the Commissioner for Economics, Productivity and Simplification of Legislation Valdis Dombrovskis and the European Economic and Social Committee (EECV), who acts at European level for the benefit of employers and employers. Rübig.
