Czech Business Today

The EESC employers´ group has developed its new road map defining the priorities for the next future. Even if Europe is suffering by the migration crisis, geopolitical instability and increasing danger of the terrorist attacks the path of European Union to the economic recovery and sustainable growth must not be interrupted.

The EU Internal Market acts as springboard for European companies to be successful by facilitating them to sell their goods and services on a global scale. The Employers’ Group therefore believes that the EU is beneficial for all EU business. However, to deliver a better, more entrepreneurial Europe, which responds to the expectations of European citizens and companies, it is imperative that improving the competitiveness of European companies and entrepreneurs becomes the key driver of EU’s actions. The Employers’ Group wants the EU to focus on issues that make a difference and where EU action has real added value. Europe needs clear, pragmatic and realistic priorities and the focus must be on concrete delivery on those priorities. To promote a more dynamic and competitive future for the EU, the Employers’ Group builds its program on six strong pillars in the context of the Juncker´ New start agenda and in interest of the whole European business community:

1. A stable macro-economic environment is a precondition for a solid, strong and sustainable growth. It is essential that Member Sates carry out growth-enhancing structural reforms in the framework of the European Semester and respect fiscal responsibility.
2. Entrepreneurship: a stronger culture of entrepreneurship must be encouraged in Europe to facilitate business creation and growth.
3. Full completion of the EU Internal Market, mindful of the needs of business and leading to improved efficiencies, based on better regulation and much-reduced costs.
4. Stimulate a more efficient, competitive, fully integrated and forward-looking industrial policy to ensure a strong, solid and competitive industrial basis in Europe.
5. (Re)-Building the role of Europe in the world, championing free trade and access to markets based on principle of reciprocity for the benefit of business and its customers.
6. Competitiveness for more employment thus maintaining the social dimension of the EU. Economic migration should be facilitated to attract talent from third countries.

Vladimíra Drbalová,
Member of the EESC, Vice-chair of the Group I – Employers