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ARTICLE — 25 september 2020

Recovery reforms for Sweden

The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise has chosen to divide its proposals for what should be included in the Swedish Recovery Fund into three parts.

ARTICLE — 23 september 2020

The single market should be the main focus of the EU

MEP Charlie Weimers (ECR) answers questions about free trade and the functioning and role of the single market after the Corona crisis.

ARTICLE — 21 september 2020

EU increase its climate ambition

European Commission announces its new climate plans with a proposal to increase its climate ambition to a 55% reduction in emissions by 2030. The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise welcomes the latest discussions on a more ambitious 2030 target.

ARTICLE — 17 september 2020

Commentary on the Digital Services Act

The European Commission, through its new ‘Digital Service Act’ (DSA) is proposing novel and revised rules for digital services. In particular, these will address the responsibilities and obligations of digital services and strengthen supervision of digital services in the EU.

ARTICLE — 16 september 2020

An EU directive on minimum wages is unacceptable

Trade unions and employers’ organisations in the private sector, are deeply concerned about the Commission’s plans to present proposals on European minimum wages.

ARTICLE — 9 september 2020

New Competition Tool (NCT) - Public consultation

The Commission has suggested new rules to tackle what is described as structural competition problems on the markets. The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise rejects the suggested new competition tool and fully endorse the views of BusinessEurope on this matter.

ARTICLE — 9 september 2020

Consequences of the OECD:s digital tax reform proposals

The European Centre for International Political Economy claims that the OECD proposal to shift effective taxing powers away from small open economies to the world’s largest countries would undermine small countries’ relative attractiveness to international businesses.

ARTICLE — 4 september 2020

Swedes like free trade – but their support cannot be taken for granted

The majority of Swedes are positive about free trade, but views of the effects of trade on the environment and vulnerability in times are crisis is divided, a survey shows.

ARTICLE — 14 juli 2020

EU-proposal detrimental to the Swedish labour market model

The European Commission is preparing a proposal which will provide a reference framework for the establishment of a decent minimum wage at European level. Sweden is firmly opposed. Johan Danielsson (S) one of the Swedish members of the European Parliament who is monitoring this issue carefully.

ARTICLE — 9 juli 2020

Shared Nordic view of proposed European Climate Law

A key part of the Green Deal is the European Climate Law. At a webinar on 30 June, the four major Nordic organisations for private sector employers presented a new joint position paper: The Climate Law post Covid-19 – the role of industry and business in reaching the objectives of climate action and economic recovery.

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