EESC Employers' Group

Name: EESC Employers' Group
Address: Rue Belliard, 99, Brussels, 1040, BE
Telephone: Tel: +32 (0)2 546 90 11

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The Employers' Group is one of the three pillars of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), a consultative body of the European Union, representing the voice of organised Civil Society.

23/06/2026

🤝 Today we are pleased to host the SGI Europe annual event focused on the Freedom to Stay, in the presence of Roxana Mînzatu, EU Commission Executive Vice President for Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs, and Preparedness.

The Freedom to Stay is an important part of the competitiveness agenda, but a right to stay is not a reason to stay. To make it work, there must be opportunities so people and business can stay & thrive 📈

As our President Sandra Parthie underlined in her opening remarks, to make companies stay we must clear the barriers they face:

✅ Cut red tape
✅ Make capital accessible
✅ Complete the Single Market

SMEs employ almost two-thirds of Europe's workforce and generate more than half of our value-added. They anchor communities, they sustain local jobs, skills and cohesion. But to do so they need a functioning Single Market, one that enables them to contract across borders on equal terms, to recognise qualifications, and to access 450 million customers without having to relocate.

That is what turns a depopulating region into a region worth investing in.

We will keep working together with our partner SGI Europe to empower SMEs and ensure businesses remain free to stay, thrive and invest in Europe.

22/06/2026

🛡️ Europe’s Eastern border regions are where our security & sovereignty are tested daily.

The European Commission's Communication 'Strong regions for a safe Europe' moves in the right direction, but it reads like a diagnosis without a treatment plan, and without the funding to match.

From the Baltic to the Black Sea, these regions face a convergence of pressures that standard 🇪🇺 tools cannot address: hybrid warfare, demographic decline with losses of over 17% in a decade, and economic disruption as Russia's invasion has cut growth, driven inflation, and severed trade routes, turning cross-border hubs into dead ends.

This cannot be solved with cohesion tools, as it is a geopolitical fault line 🎯

➡️ Read the interview by Rapporteur Katrīna Zariņa for The Brussels Times: https://tinyurl.com/bp8a293

19/06/2026

📢 Our June is out! This month we talk about:

🔹 Economic Security
🔹 RESourceEU
🔹 Water Resilience
🔹 Common Agricultural Policy
🔹 Strategy on Eastern border regions
..and more❗

➡️ Read our newsletter: https://link.europa.eu/Kktjg3

18/06/2026

📣 It's a wrap for our June ! Here are some highlights:

📍 Circularity is part of our strategic autonomy and the upcoming Circular Economy Act must rise to the challenge. During the debate on "Driving a just, competitive and ecological transition" with Executive Vice President TeresaRibera, our President Sandra Parthie underlined that we have a unique opportunity to build a genuine for waste & secondary raw materials, but circularity will not happen if we legislate it. It will happen if it makes economic sense. If it does not add complexity to an already dense regulatory landscape but rather fill real market gaps ♻️

📍Building resilience in Europe’s Eastern border regions was another debate topic. Eastern regions have become the EU’s strategic vanguard, yet Brussels treats them as a cohesion issue. We need a comprehensive & geopolitical response.

📍 At the debate "From the EU Blue Deal and water resilience to global water action", our members stressed how water must be recognised as a strategic resource for the EU. There cannot be nor a successful green transition without it. We propose a Blue Deal Accelerator to turn strategies into action, a cross-sector framework of skills and finance, and an EU approach to water management that embeds in all EU industrial policies.

📍 We also adopted an EESC contribution to the European Commission 2027 Work Programme. EU businesses need a clear & predictable regulatory environment to invest & innovate. This EESC contribution to the EC 2027 Work Programme is a call to focus where it matters most: cut unnecessary burdens, strengthen the , support economic resilience.

We also adopted important Opinions, including on:

➡️ Strengthening EU economic security: https://link.europa.eu/VwQkv9
➡️ RESourceEU plan: https://link.europa.eu/DyCKwb
➡️ Evaluation of Common Agricultural Policy delivery on its objectives: https://link.europa.eu/k3mcd8
➡️ EESC Contribution to the UN Water Conference 2026: https://link.europa.eu/nMfRdb
➡️ EESC’s recommendations on the European Semester cycle: https://link.europa.eu/4Tw3gH

👉 Find out more in our newsletter: https://lnkd.in/dGY8gs5J

17/06/2026

🏠 Access to affordable housing is an increasingly pressing challenge across the EU. Rising construction costs, restrictive financing conditions, labour shortages, lengthy permitting procedures and increasing regulatory complexity have contributed to a persistent mismatch between housing supply and demand. So how can the supply of housing be increased ❓

Today we discussed this with representatives from the housing and construction sectors: Christine Le Forestier, Director Social Affairs of the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers; Stefan Moser, Head of European Commission's Task Force on Housing (EU Commission); Bianca Faragau Tavares, Institutional Policy Officer at the European Investment Bank; and EESC Employers' Group member Robert de Mûelenaere.

📍 Addressing the housing crisis requires a significant increase in new construction, as current supply alone cannot meet demand. This means the need to build faster, more cost-effectively and more sustainably, by accelerating and digitalising permitting procedures, scaling up modern construction methods such as modular building, and strengthening the EU to achieve economies of scale and overcome fragmentation.

Financing also remains a critical issue: public budgets are insufficient on their own, making it essential to mobilise private investment through regulatory stability, long-term financing and appropriate financial instruments.

The EU must rise to the challenge. What is needed is a coordinated approach to boost housing supply.

15/06/2026

📍 Competitiveness, values & security will be at the heart of the upcoming Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU 2026 priorities.

Last week, we met with Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Minister of State for European Affairs Thomas Byrne for the presentation of these priorities. As Employers' Group, we welcome the focus on but will pay close attention so that these are not just buzzwords, but real developments on the ground to:

✅ Reduce regulatory burden for companies
✅ Attract investments
✅ Finalise the

Learn more with our President Sandra Parthie 👇

10/06/2026

🌊 Geography can affect the way a hashtag competes.

Today the European Commission (EU Maritime & Fish and Europe in my region) announced the 🇪🇺 Strategy for Islands and Coastal Communities to boost economic competitiveness and strengthen the climate change resilience of these areas.

As businesses on EU islands face higher transport and energy costs, skills shortages, and strong seasonality, we have been calling for a European “Islands Pact” that takes into account the realities of small islands across all policies: cohesion, transport, energy, environment, maritime affairs, and State aid.

📍 This Strategy comes at the right moment. Now its success depends on mobilising investment, boosting the sustainable blue economy and ensuring coherent, business‑friendly implementation across EU and national policies.

➡️ Learn more with our member Manthos Mavrommatis and read more here: https://lnkd.in/eaunYS9j

09/06/2026

🤝 A renewed Pact for the Mediterranean must put business & civil society at the centre.

Focus should be on the role of micro, small and medium‑sized enterprises (MSMEs). They are the backbone of both the EU and the Mediterranean partner countries' economies, yet their contribution to value added remains limited.

📍 To unlock private sector potential, MSME‑focused reforms are needed, including improved access to finance, simplified procedures, a conducive regulatory framework and support for digitalisation and connectivity. These measures would enable firms to join regional value chains and boost investor confidence.

➡️ Read more with our member Manthos Mavrommatis:
https://link.europa.eu/KdDYrw

05/06/2026

EU market surveillance: how can we close the gap between rules & reality ❓

While the 🇪🇺 has a strong legal framework for market surveillance, enforcement is struggling to keep pace with today’s market realities.

Digitalisation, global supply chains and the rise of e-commerce make it harder to detect and stop non-compliant products, especially from non-EU sellers operating online.

At the same time, limited resources and uneven enforcement across Member States create an unlevel playing field for businesses that comply with EU rules. We call for:

✅ stronger and more consistent enforcement
✅ better coordination between authorities, including customs
✅ simpler, more coherent rules
✅ increased investment in enforcement capacity.

Without such reforms, the EU risks falling behind a rapidly changing market landscape.

➡️ Learn more with Rapporteur Antje Gerstein: https://link.europa.eu/Q6HCwY

04/06/2026

The European Commission’s marks an important step towards strengthening Europe’s capacity in strategic digital technologies, from semiconductors and AI to cloud and open source.

Reducing critical dependencies and boosting Europe’s innovation base is essential for competitiveness, resilience and long-term growth. But ambition alone is not enough.

To succeed, Europe must ensure:

📍 A business-friendly regulatory environment that enables companies to innovate and scale.
📍 Faster permitting and simpler rules, especially for strategic investments and infrastructure.
📍 Strong mobilisation of private investment alongside public support.

European companies will play a central role in turning this agenda into real economic impact by investing, innovating and creating quality jobs.

The priority now is clear: deliver in practice what is announced in policy.

➡️ Read more: https://link.europa.eu/NHgVQt

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Rue Belliard, 99
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Tel: +32 (0)2 546 90 11

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http://www.eesc.europa.eu/employers-group

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