Shaping Europe for SMEs, shaping SMEs for Europe.
Brussels, Belgium
Joined July 2010
- Tweets6.8K
- Following680
- Followers4.6K
- Likes2.1K
⚠️ European Commission's 2027 Work Programme: a #simplification agenda that does not deliver for #SMEs
SMEunited strongly rejects the withdrawal of the proposed Regulation on combating late payment from the @EU_Commission Work Programme 2027.
👇smeunited.eu/news/commission…
Unfair payment terms and #LatePayments increasingly impact #SMEs.
💬 President @DavideGalli_: "Withdrawing a proposal that would have given SMEs the ability to invest, hire, and own their cash flow goes against any commitments this Commission had toward SMEs".
📍 The SME Envoy Network kicks off the #SMECAssembly2026 in 🇮🇪
@SMEunited shares #SME priorities:
➡️ Regulate less & better
➡️ Deliver on the SME Relief Package
➡️ Demand-side measures to shelter SMEs from supply shocks
#EUSMEWeek #ECCP #EUClusters
👇smeunited.eu/news/smes-deman…
📦 European businesses urge rapid progress on #PPWR simplification
In a Joint Statement, @SMEunited and @Eurochambres call on the @Europarl_EN and @EUCouncil to urgently launch and conclude trilogue negotiations on the Environmental #Omnibus.
smeunited.eu/publications/jo…
Today in Istanbul: the second #SMEadapt Steering Committee, hosted by TÜRKONFED, focuses on strengthening #SME organisations’ role in social dialogue and EU policymaking on climate adaptation and #resilience.
#SMEs #ClimateAdaptation #SocialDialogue
📢 Weekly #SME recap:
✅ President Galli meets @Teresaribera
✅ Quality Jobs require competitive SMEs
✅ Social Partners discuss EU enlargement
✅ A skills system fit for SMEs
✅ @Europarl_EN and @EUCouncil back relief for small businesses #PPWR
➡️mailchi.mp/smeunited/newsfla…
📢 Weekly #SME recap:
✅ Tripartite Social Summit
✅ Board of Directors meets @Ireland2026eu
✅ Freedom to Stay
✅ Enterprise Policy
✅ #ImplementationDialogue on Housing
✅ Labour mobility
✅ Intellectual Property and #Finance
✅ Voluntary Standard
➡️mailchi.mp/smeunited/newsfla…
📢 Less burden, better investment: our message to EU leaders
At yesterday's Tripartite Social Summit, SMEunited called on EU leaders to deliver a growth strategy that works for Europe's #SMEs.
Photos: © European Union, 2026
smeunited.eu/news/less-burde…
💬 President Galli: "Europe should show trust in entrepreneurs, reduce burdens and create the conditions for small businesses to invest, innovate and grow"
SMEunited highlighted simplification, investment, skills and a stronger #SingleMarket for Europe's 34 million #SMEs
#EURegionsWeek: @SMEunited joins Freedom to Stay Coalition
Initiated by @SGI_Europe, the Coalition revolves around one key idea:
The #SingleMarket, which guarantees the freedom to live and work anywhere in the EU, should also protect the #FreedomToStay.
smeunited.eu/news/smeunited-…
📊 Autumn 2026 #barometer: stable SME Business Confidence Indicator hides growing uncertainty.
smeunited.eu/publications/th…
💬"Following multiple crises, most recently the surge in energy prices from the war in the Middle East, companies remain cautious about their future business situation".
Full press release 👇 smeunited.eu/news/stable-sme…
📢 Weekly #SME recap
✅ Autumn 2026 SME #Barometer
✅ #Standardisation Regulation
✅ Right to Stay
✅ National and Regional Partnership Plans #NRPP
✅ Social dialogue
✅ Sector Committee meeting
✅ Consumer Law Ready #CLR
✅ Circular business models
➡️mailchi.mp/smeunited/newsfla…
SMEunited retweeted
📢 SBS, @SMEunited & @EBC_SMEs JOINT PRESS RELEASE ON NEW STANDARDISATION REGULATION: Standards are about SME competitiveness, not just compliance.
Read here: sbs-sme.eu/publication/sbs-s…
📢Happening today
Tune in for the presentation of the Autumn 2026 #SME Business Climate Index and SME Barometer
📅 9 October 2026
🕦 11:30 - 12:00
📌 Online
More information smeunited.eu/events/presenta…
📢Weekly #SME recap:
✅Future of entrepreneurship
✅Legal Affairs Committee
✅Country-Specific Recommendations
✅Unlocking international opportunities for SMEs
✅2027 Semester Autumn Package
✅#QualityJobsAct
✅#Housing
✅SME Barometer – Autumn 2026
➡️mailchi.mp/smeunited/newsfla…
📢 Weekly #SME recap:
✅ Environmental #Omnibus must simplify #PPWR now
✅ Late Payment
✅ SME relief package
✅ Better Regulation with @VDombrovskis at the @EU_EESC
✅ One Europe One Market
✅ Consumer Law Ready
✅ Psychosocial risks at the workplace
➡️mailchi.mp/smeunited/newsfla…
Payment terms, administration, and skills: key bottlenecks for #SMEs
Last week, @SMEunited joined the @EarlyWarningEU Day and European Mentor Day 2026, hosted by @EU_IPO in Alicante.
Secretary General Veronique Willems warned about the effects of #LatePayment on #SMEs.
💬 "Unfair payment terms are one of the biggest problems for small businesses. SMEs have to pay their own bills immediately, but they receive payment much later. That is why the Late Payment Regulation is so important".
⬇️ smeunited.eu/news/payment-te…
