Tiny: “Focusing on entrepreneurship”

2023-07-13 12:36:05
“This week in the European Parliament is all about entrepreneurship. This is important, because in these challenging times the economy needs targeted support to ensure that the European Union remains competitive in the future. This includes actively removing bureaucratic hurdles, better access to funding and the focus on European competitiveness,” says Angelika Winzig, head of the ÖVP delegation in the European Parliament. “Commission President von der Leyen has announced that she will reduce the bureaucracy for our companies by 25 percent. But I miss that in the current legislative proposals, which unfortunately often have exactly the opposite effect, namely even more bureaucratic hurdles. The so-called one-in-one out approach, which stipulates that for each new regulation another one is deleted, must finally be applied. But that can only be the first step,” demands Winzig. “In a survey from 2022, European SMEs were more pessimistic than ever before. A sticking point here is clearly access to finance. Here it is important to increase the participation of SMEs in calls for finance such as Horizon Europe and our entrepreneurs But access to alternative forms of financing must also be made easier,” says Winzig, head of the non-partisan working group for SMEs in the EU Parliament.
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