The Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs will be launched Monday, 4 March 2013 in Brussels

Filling the gaps - the Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs will be launched Monday, 4 March 2013 in Brussels. The event is hosted by

- Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission in charge of the Digital Agenda for Europe 

- Antonio Tajani, Vice President of the European Commission in charge of Industry and Entrepreneurship

- László Andor, Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

- Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth

The programme features the keynote speech by President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso.

For more information, see the programme.

EMF will keep you informed about the outcome of the conference in this blog!

Tajani unveils plan to make entrepreneurship more attractive

The European Commission has urged member states to change their tax regimes to be more encouraging to small businesses. It said it would be identifying best practices across the EU that were conducive to “an entrepreneur-friendly fiscal environment”.

Launching an action plan for entrepreneurship (9 January), Antonio Tajani, the European commissioner for industry and entrepreneurship, stressed the importance of tax regimes to small businesses and invite member states to:

• make tax administration more favorable to early-stage business
• promote cross-border tax co-ordination to minimise double taxation and other barriers to cross-border enterprise
• reassess corporate income tax regimes
• implement the option for small businesses of a cash accounting scheme for value-added tax
• allow owners of new businesses to ask for adjustments to their payment schedules for social security contributions

Tajani said he would be asking the Irish government, which has just taken on the presidency of the Council of Ministers, to put the action plan on the agenda of one of the meetings of the Competitiveness Council during its presidency.

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"Mission for Growth" empowered SME business in USA, Mexico and Colombia

A delegation of representatives of European SMEs and entrepreneurs led by Vice President Antonio Tajani visited the United States, Mexico and Colombia on 11-17 May. Their mission : to help European small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to foster business cooperation with these regions and their partially fast growing markets and to  to boost economic growth and competitiveness through greater internationalization of European industries.

The strategic sectors are: greater integration of markets and standards, industrial innovation, SMEs, raw materials and space tourism. Antonio Tajani will sign several agreements and he will meet the representatives of institutions and economic stakeholders.

This mission is part of the new series of "Missions for Growth" to help European enterprises, in particular small and medium sized enterprises to better profit from fast growing emerging international markets.

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