EU2020 - What role for European business ?
the College d’Europe organizes a conference to discuss the role European business can play in the pursuit of EU2020 goals. On the EU/business interface, European business should also actively engage in stimulating the EU bodies, above all the Commission, to assume bold, innovative initiatives as well as demonstrate best-practice examples.
The conference is held against the background of the fact that the year 2010 will confront European governments with the fallout from the financial crisis. Unemployment is expected to reach double digit figures at a moment where concerns about climate change and ageing populations come to the fore and set limits to classical economic growth. Policy-makers around the world are planning the exit from the crisis and conceiving ways to reconcile the creation of new jobs with the challenges of the next decades.
‘EU2020’ has been designed by the European Commission as a successor to the Lisbon Strategy and aims at shaping a “new sustainable social market economy, a smarter, greener economy, where our prosperity will come from innovation […] and where the key input will be knowledge”. It expresses the need to find “new sources of growth to replace the jobs lost in the crisis”.
The First Bruges European Business Conference will discuss the role European business can play in the pursuit of EU2020 goals. On the EU / business interface, European business should also actively engage in stimulating the EU bodies, above all the Commission, to assume bold, innovative initiatives as well as demonstrate best-practice examples.
Further info on this event can be found via the following link: http://www.coleurop.be/template.asp?pagename=ecoconf
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