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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8967

14 June 2005
Contents Publication in full By article 27 / 46
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/entreprise
Maive Rute, Commission's new "envoy for SMEs", stresses need to boost dialogue with SMEs and create European network of SMEs

Brussels, 13/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - As part of the relaunch of the Lisbon Strategy, the European Commissioner for Enterprise, Gunter Verheugen, has stressed the need to pay particular attention to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Over 25 million SMEs employ almost 75 million people and create half of all new jobs in the EU, which is not something to be ignored, the Commission explained. It feels that in order to improve understanding of what the heads of these businesses want,...

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