On Monday 18 December, the European Commission launched a public consultation aiming to identify ways to make it easier for SMEs to go public - one of the initiatives announced in its mid-term revision of the action plan on the Capital Markets Union in June of this year (see EUROPE 11804).
In the consultation document, the Commission explains that SMEs have not been fully able to return to financing themselves on the public markets since the financial crisis, with the number of initial...