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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8280

22 August 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/convention
SME want their own commissioner

Brussels, 21/08/2002 (Agence Europe) - The European Popular Party's European Association of SMEs (of which the General Secretary is Günther Fehlinger) has written to the President of the European Convention Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, appealing for the appointment as from 2005, of a European Commissioner in charge of small and medium-sized enterprises. More than 60% of employees work in SMEs and produce almost 60% of European Union GDP, explains the letter. It also highlights the fact that...

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