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ARTICLE – October 18, 2021
Two key pieces of legislation set to define our digital future
European Parliament and Council are currently discussing two key pieces of legislation regarding our digital future. The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise is positive to both the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act, which the European Commission presented in December 2020, but several of the many amendments currently being discussed are worrying, writes Carola Ekblad, digital policy expert.
ARTICLE – October 15, 2021
Hammarstedt: Don’t rush the implementation of the OECD Global Tax Agreement
Agreement may have been reached on digital tax and global minimum tax - but the hardest negotiations are still ahead
ARTICLE – October 13, 2021
The Arctic’s importance in climate change mitigation and sustainable economic development rightly recognised in the EU’s new Arctic policy
The Nordic industry organisations welcome the European Commission’s and European External Action Service’s (EEAS) Joint Communication on the Arctic. However, it is crucial that the business community in the European Arctic and in the EU plays a key role in EU efforts promoting sustainable economic development in the Arctic region.
ARTICLE – October 8, 2021
EU: More state aid not the answer for recovery
The EU Commission is proposing a further expansion of generous state aid rules introduced during the pandemic to facilitate investment support from the public sector. The proposals are wrongheaded. The economy needs to stand on its own two feet again, writes Stefan Sagebro, expert on competition and state aid issues.
ARTICLE – October 7, 2021
Swedish Enterprise on the technical screening criteria linked to environmental objectives 3–6
Swedish Enterprise urges the Commission to discuss the formulations of the objectives and the technical screening criteria with the wider business community before presenting its proposal. The link between the proposed criteria and how they will lead to achievement of prosed objectives is currently unclear in many aspects.
ARTICLE – September 23, 2021
Persson: ”The EU must focus on Europe’s competitiveness”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen recently delivered her annual keynote ‘State of the Union’ speech, identifying a wide range of areas on which the EU must focus. The content is positive, but Confederation of Swedish Enterprise’s President Fredrik Persson would have preferred to see an agenda that showed a greater focus on competitiveness and entrepreneurship.
ARTICLE – September 17, 2021
Social taxonomy ? No, thank you!
The taxonomy is intended to indicate whether investments are sustainable or not. The focus so far has been on environmental factors, but now a similar setup is suggested for social impacts. Jonas Berggren, Chief Analyst International and EU Affairs, warns that the latter could become an administrative nightmare that leads to fewer sustainable investments.
ARTICLE – September 9, 2021
Strengthen EU with clear rules on AI
If political ambitions for our digital future are to be realised, the regulations must be clear and technically feasible in practice.
ARTICLE – September 9, 2021
Comments on the forthcoming Data Act from the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise
Ahead of the announced Data Act the EU Commission published an impact assessment.
ARTICLE – September 9, 2021
Swedish Enterprise’s position on broadening the scope of the Ecodesign Directive
The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise supports efforts towards more sustainable products and believes that product development must incorporate key sustainability aspects. Although the development of more sustainable products is already well under way, more needs to be done to promote further advancement.

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