Second issue of e-newsletter Czech Business Today deals with social dumping and barriers to a Single Market. Old Member States protect their economies against cheaper labour force from Eastern and Central Europe. An example of these measures is the application of German minimum wage to foreign hauliers. Vice-chair of EMPL Committee Martina Dlabajová says that different national practices regarding minimum rates of pay and social protection must stay a national competence as the GDP varies in EU Member States. Another issue of CBT is the new agreement on a new framework for transatlantic data flows, the so-called EU-US Privacy Shield.
On the second page of the e-newsletter, you can read about the result of the meeting between CEBRE founders and Czech MEPs. The participants of the meeting agreed about the need to discuss more often the issues with an impact on businesses. EESC article written by Petr Zahradník is dealing with performance-based EU Budget which means an adequate focus of its expenditures on real EU priorities.
