European Business Summit

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The European Business Summit (EBS) is an annual summit event on the initiative of the employers 'association Businesseurope and the Belgian employers' association . Entrepreneurs and European politicians aim to plan and shape the future together here.

According to the company, the meeting has around 1500 participants from around 60 countries, including high-ranking EU politicians and prime ministers . It is observed by around 200 journalists.

2014

Jürgen Thumann and José Manuel Barroso at the EBS 2012 in Brussels

The theme for the event, which took place from May 14th to 15th in the Palais d'Egmont in Brussels, was “ The Business Agenda 2014 - 2019: Rebuilding a Competitive Europe ”. The European politicians Michel Barnier , José Manuel Barroso and Jonathan Faull acted as speakers , as well as entrepreneurs and CEOs . The closing session dealt with candidates for the office of President of the European Commission after the 2014 European elections . A study on how digital technologies are changing the European economy was also presented.

The left-wing political alliance Blockupy tried to block the event. According to Toni Negri , Europe could become a “political laboratory in the sense of Blockupy, in order to rethink concepts such as counterpower and autonomy in a perspective that would also give the idea of democracy a new meaning”. Around 250 arrests were made during the demonstration against the conference.

Topics of previous events

  • 2015 " Europe 4.0 - Delivering a vision for the future of Europe "
  • 2014 " The Business Agenda 2014–2019: Rebuilding a Competitive Europe "
  • 2013 " Unlocking Industrial Opportunities - An EU Strategy for Competitiveness "
  • 2012 " Skills for Growth "
  • 2011 “ Leading or Lagging? "
  • 2010 " Putting Europe back on Track "
  • 2009 " Dare and Care: sustaining Europe's ambitions - Financing, Staffing and Greening "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Where Business and Politics Shape the Future. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 19, 2014 ; accessed on May 14, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ebsummit.eu
  2. ^ About The European Business Summit. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 19, 2014 ; accessed on May 14, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ebsummit.eu
  3. ↑ Speakers 2014
  4. ↑ Download the Accenture / EBS study
  5. ↑ Brussels: Police start action days with water cannons. May 15, 2014, accessed May 15, 2014 .
  6. ^ Manifestation tendue devant le European Business Summit à Bruxelles. In: RTL.be. May 15, 2014, accessed May 15, 2014 (French).
  7. ↑ PM: European days of action - kick-off with the blocking of Business Europe in Brussels. May 7, 2014, accessed May 14, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Protests against TTIP: 250 arrests during demonstration in Brussels . Spiegel online on May 15, 2014, accessed May 15, 2014
  9. ↑ European Business Summit 2013: Where Business and Politics shape the future. In: The European Sting. Retrieved May 14, 2014 .

Web links

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