Brussels, 19/11/2014 (Agence Europe) - SMEs are not international enough. The European Commission has briefed the European Parliament's industry committee (ITRE) about the efforts agreed at a European level to rectify this problem by way of the COSME initiative.
The European Commission pointed out that barely a quarter of SMEs have exported within the EU over the past few years, although 13% of them had exported outside the EU. This situation is mainly due to the administrative difficulties...