The “Permanent Liaison”: how ERT and BusinessEurope set the agenda for the EU Summit | Corporate Europe Observatory

The “Permanent Liaison”: how ERT and BusinessEurope set the agenda for the EU Summit | Corporate Europe Observatory:

The issue of 'competitiveness' will be dominating the discussions at the European Council Summit that takes place on 20-21 March. An important theme for big business as measures in this field are, while attacking citizen's rights, generally in line with industry's interests. Therefore, in the past months, major industry lobby groups ERT and BusinessEurope have been bent on exerting their influence on the agenda and discussions of first the Competitiveness Council meeting and then the EU Summit – and seem to have succeeded.