Category: Business
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What’s the status of EU-US trade and technology cooperation?
Brussels, 9th April 2024 – Hundreds of stakeholders and journalists descended on Leuven, Belgium, on April 4th and 5th to attend the sixth edition of the Trade and Technology Council and hear what several high-level EU and US leaders had to say on relations between the two parties. The Council, set up by US President…
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“For Europe to recover, SMEs need to recover.” – The European Commission announces SME Relief Package
The SMEs of Europe have been facing difficult times in recent years. The COVID-19 pandemic brought uncertainty, restrictions forced many businesses to temporarily close down, while other sectors were affected by supply-chain shortages. After the brief recovery period that followed the pandemic, the world economy and SMEs are now facing new challenges: inflation, skyrocketing energy…
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The Contribution of Ethnic Minority Firms to Innovation, Growth and Trade: An interview with Monder Ram
Professor Monder Ram is the Director of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME). He is a leading authority on small business and ethnic minority entrepreneurship research and has published widely on the subject, and has extensive experience of working in and acting as a consultant to small and ethnic minority businesses. Together…
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COVID-19: A European response to tackle the Economic Impacts with the Commissioner for Economy, Paolo Gentiloni
“We are aware that what was the use of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) to rescue single countries in the last 10 years is not what we need now. What we need now is to have a common tool for a crisis affecting all EU countries. The whole mechanism of conditionalities should be changed” –…
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Young Entrepreneurs from the South, raise up! An interview with Amel Saidane
Amel Saidane is an entrepreneur, ecosystem builder and digital transformation expert. She is president of Tunisian Startups and the co-founder of BetaCube a venture builder in Fintech. She is an innovation and digital transformation activist acting for instance as a board member for the Digital Center of Excellence of the United Nations Economic Commission for…
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Our interview with H.E. Ms. Gaitri Ambassador of India to the Belgium, Luxembourg and the EU on India-EU economic, political and cultural relations
In October 2017, the 14th India-EU Summit was unable to set in motion the stalled negotiations for concluding the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA), or Broad Based Trade and Investment agreement (BTIA). According to you, what are the main obstacles to the conclusion of an agreement? Trade has been an integral part of the EU…
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4th European Migration Forum: Towards a more inclusive labour market for migrants: Seizing the potential by addressing the challenges
The 4th European Migration Forum – the dialogue platform on migration, asylum and migrant integration – took place on 6 March and was organized around the theme “Towards a more inclusive labour market for migrants: Seizing the potential by addressing the challenges”. The EMF is a platform for dialogue between civil society and the European…
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1st EMEN conference, 23-24 April 2018 in Munich: Why Migrant Entrepreneurship Matters?
The first annual conference of the EMEN project will take place in Munich, Germany, on Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th April 2018, hosted by Social Impact gGmbH. The conference will take place at Social Impact Lab München, Balanstraße 73, Campus der Ideen, Haus 21a, 81541 MÜNCHEN It will feature: Pitches by migrant entrepreneurs Expert Café…
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The European Agenda for Migration from a Global Perspective: An Interview with Mr. Eugenio Ambrosi, IOM Regional Director for the EU
The European Agenda for Migration aims on one side at stopping the human tragedies occurring at EU’s external borders, on the other side at ensuring a better migration management in Europe. What is the international context within which the European Agenda for Migration is being implemented? After 2015, the international scenario has witnessed a significant…
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Everything (or nearly) you should know about next week’s 48th World Economic Forum
From 23 to 26 January 2018, more than 2,500 participants – heads of state and government, presidents of international organizations, CEOs, representatives of civil society, reporters and experts – will meet in Davos for the 48th World Economic Forum (WEF) around the theme “Creating shared future in a fractured world “. While the debate on…