EFB-AIDAF Summit: Private Audience with Pope Francis
As part of the AIDAF’s 19th Convengno Nazionale, on Saturday 5th September 2024, European Family Businesses’ President Mr Udo J. Vetter and Secretary General of EFB Mr Jesus Casado and President of AIDAF Ms Christina Bombassei along with a delegation of representatives of family businesses had the opportunity to have a private audience with Pope […]
EFB’s Welcome Reception 2024
We would like to thank the companies of Schwarz Group and the Representation of Baden-Württemberg to the EU in Brussels, for facilitating our welcome reception yesterday, 10th September 2024. This event allowed us to gather Members of the European Parliament (both new and re-elected), Commission representatives and family business owners from various EU countries, sectors […]
EFB’s initial assessment of The Future of European Competitiveness report
EFB welcomes the release of the report on The Future of European competitiveness by Mr Mario Draghi. The urgent need for investment in innovation, skills , vocational education, training, and the pressing need to cut red-tape are all topics EFB itself point out in its manifesto. We are glad to see Mr Draghi’s recommendation to go beyond […]
Ms Ursula von der Leyen was re-elected to the role of Commission President
The first plenary session of the 10th Parliamentary term, has come to an end. Between the 16th-19th July crucial votes took place in Strasbourg, which will shape the future of Europe’s businesses for the next five years. Before being re-elected as Commission President for a second term, in her speech to MEPs, Ms Ursula von […]
Enrico Letta’s Report on the Future of the Single Market
European Family Businesses (EFB) welcomes the release of the report on the Future of the Single Market by Mr Enrico Letta, President of the Jacques Delors Institute on the 17th April 2024. This much-anticipated independent high-level report was requested by the European Council last year on the 30th of June 2023. It highlights several significant […]
Mid-Caps: METI “For a European Mittlestand”
On the 10th April 2024, our French member METI held a meeting under the title of “For a European Mittlestand”. European Family Businesses was invited to participate. Here participants from across Europe (in particular from France, Spain, Germany and Portugal) engaged in several informative discussions on the topic offering different perspectives before French senators and […]
The social contribution of family businesses in the Netherlands – FBNed and Stichting Familie Onderneming
FBNed and Stichting Familie Onderneming (the Family Enterprise Foundation) commissioned a study to map contributions made by family businesses in the Netherlands. The study was conducted by SEO Amsterdam Economics and can be found in English in the policy – report section of the EFB website. For more information on the study visit FBNed’s website. […]
UPDATE: EFB’s position on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)
On Friday 15th March the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) was adopted. After several attempts by the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU to put the CSDDD on the Council agenda, it became clear that more compromises would be required than those achieved in the provisional agreement reached on the 14th December […]
European Family Businesses at the SME Assembly 2023 in Bilbao, Spain.
From the 13th to the 15th of November 2023, European Family Businesses had the opportunity to attend the SME Assembly in Bilbao, Spain. Here together with many entrepreneurs, policymakers, delegates and business associations, we listened to many panels and discussions on the single market, competitiveness, entrepreneurship, sustainability and more. We also participated in different parts […]
European Family Businesses Directors’ Retreat 2023
European Family Businesses (EFB) recently had a directors’ retreat in Bilbao, Spain between the 20-22 September. Here we had the privilege to have Velatia’s President Mr Javier Ormazabal host us on the 21 September at the Ormazabal Research and Development Centre, where the largest high power laboratory in Europe is located. As a second generation […]