EU Elections: European business community unites

In the run up to the EU elections, EFB, together with the European business community, released a joint statement to urge the citizens of Europe to vote.  In the run up to the EU elections, EFB, together with the European business community, released a joint statement to urge the citizens of Europe to vote.  In […]

EU elections results: The Family Business Perspective

by Jesus Casado, Secretary General of EFB  In the last two months the EU institutions have completely renewed their composition for the next cycle. In spite of a growing wave of Populism and Euroscepticism, coupled with a slowdown in economic growth, there are some encouraging signs coming from this new political makeup that can give […]

EU Spring Project

In January, the EU co-financed SPRING project was officially launched to help family businesses reach their full potential.  EFB, along with 10 other partners from across the EU, officially launched in January this year, the SPRING project. SPRING, will aim to help EU family businesses to fulfil their potential, by offering them a complete package […]

Report: UK Family Business Sector

UK Family Businesses are still performing well despite economic and political uncertainty  A new report released by UK Family Business Sector in May, shows that family businesses remain as the backbone of the U.K economy. In addition, the report highlights the sizeable contribution family firms continue to make to the UK economy across all sectors. The report […]

High-Level Roundtable on Family Business

Back in March, in preparation for the new institutional cycle, high-level representatives of EFB met with the Commission and Parliament.  Commissioner Oettinger remarked that this meeting was adjourned to discuss what support family businesses need in the coming years and what can be best delivered and achieved at the EU level. He noted that family […]

SUFABU: First kick-off meeting in Prague

SUFABU is an EU funded Erasmus+ project that responds to the needs of European family businesses that currently face a task of intergenerational exchange. The project aims to create a flexible training system focused on the succession process in family businesses and, at the same time, to raise awareness of the obstacles that family entrepreneurs […]

Message from the Chairman

On the 19th of November, I was honoured to be elected as the new president of EFB. I recognise that as a community and as a continent, we will be facing important challenges in the coming years.  My message to President von der Leyen, and her team of Commissioners is clear: We need a Europe […]

New Commission President underlines importance of family businesses

On the 27th of November, in front of the European Parliament, on the occasion of the presentation of the new College of Commissioners and their programmes, the New Commission President, Ursula Von der Leyen, highlighted the importance of family businesses.    The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said in her inaugural […]