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EK Business Tendency Survey: Coming out of the trough, recovery moderate

Business confidence improved slightly

Finnish Industries EK Celebrates Five Decades in Brussels – the Work Continues for European Economic Growth

Finnish Industries EK: EU Needs to Focus on Economic Growth and Strengthen Joint Investment Funding

Business confidence overall remains nearly unchanged

Olena Kutsai: Our Kyiv office is ready to help Finnish companies enter Ukraine

Finnish business to grant the 2024 Ambassador Awards to Maimo Henriksson, Juha Markkanen and Team Finland in France

Manufacturing confidence rose – other main sectors remain weaker

EK Business Tendency Survey: Business outlooks point to an economic turnaround

Business confidence continued to rise

Von der Leyen’s second term: towards business-friendly direction – details will matter

Ursula von der Leyen was re-elected as the European Commission President on 18.7. Before the...

Business Confidence Strengthening

Finnish Industries’ key takeaways on Enrico Letta’s Report on the EU Single Market

Juho Mäki-Lohiluoma: Do We Dare to Ask the EU for New Regulation?

Common regulation is essential for a functioning single market. However, in the EU’s legislative process,...

Organisation leaders: “A lot is at stake in the EU elections – we must adhere to the climate goals”

Business confidence unchanged

Expat Professionals living in Finland: Join EK’s network

EU elections: Europe must wake up to the competitiveness challenge

EK Business Tendency Survey: Companies’ business outlooks remain gloomy

Business confidence still decreasing

EastCham Finland and EK to open an office in Kyiv – the role of Finnish business will be strengthened in Ukraine

Karoliina Rasi: Let’s create a real circular economy market in the EU!

The circular economy is advancing, but more encouraging examples of its business models are needed....

Business confidence continues to decline

Business confidence turned downwards

The EU Commission’s 2040 climate proposal provides good guidelines for the future

EK Business Tendency Survey: Companies’ business outlooks still muted

Business confidence continues to rise

Finland’s SME Sustainability Barometer 2023: Sustainability increasingly important for competitiveness of export and growth companies

Business confidence on the rise

Nordic business organisations appeal at COP28: keep ambition high

A Pan-European group of industry associations calls on the EU legislators to ensure the materialization of the objectives of the Listing Act

Business confidence remained unchanged in November

EU Climate Target 2040: Ambitious Policies Needed to Boost Green Growth

Businesses expect business cycle to weaken further

Business confidence weakened in October

Business confidence declining

Business confidence unchanged

Finnish business to grant Ambassador Awards to Markku Keinänen, Anu-Eerika Viljanen and Team Finland in the United States

Companies estimate a weakening business cycle

Business confidence continued to fall

EU Parliament threatens to significantly limit the use of multiple-vote shares of listed companies

European Parliament’s support for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises is welcomed and important

European Parliament’s recent adoption of the State of the SME Union is timely and important....

The Commission and the European Central Bank are preparing a digital euro – EK calls for comprehensive impact assessments

The data dashboard tracks Finland’s green investments

Business confidence declining

Business confidence unchanged

EU’s Nature Restoration law needs to find a balance between biodiversity and socioeconomic goals

EK Business Tendency Survey: Business cycle remained weak

Business confidence in decline

Strategic Autonomy – rebuilding Europe following a French dream?

Increased uncertainties in global politics have accelerated the debate on the EU’s strategic autonomy, EU’s...

New EU legislation prepared to regulate the green claims

Business confidence in a slight decline

30 years of Europe’s single market – a great achievement of the EU

Finland lives off exports, which is why the EU’s Single Market is the lifeline of...

Confidence in Finnish Industries Remained Unchanged

BusinessEurope SME Roadshow kicked off in Helsinki

EK Business Tendency Survey: Business cycle continued to deteriorate

Confidence in Finnish Industries Unchanged

Anastasiia from Kyiv – how Finnish Industries got a Ukrainian colleague

Confidence in Finnish Industries Unchanged

Confidence in Finnish Industries Decreases

The carbon handprint concept gains significant momentum at COP27

Confidence in Finnish Industries Stable

According to EK’s Business Tendency Survey, the Finnish economy is in recession

International talents: Finland’s country brand remains positive in spite of the changed security environment

Confidence in Finnish Industries Declined

We must combat deforestation globally and agree on realistically achievable EU rules

Finnish Industries support the aim to safeguard the world’s forests, protect biodiversity, and tackle global...

The EU Single Market must be functional also in times of crisis

Confidence in Finnish Industries Declined

Finnish business to grant Ambassador Awards to Ritva Koukku-Ronde, Marjut Akola and Team Finland in Russia

Confidence in Finnish Industries Declined

Business Tendency Survey: Dark clouds gather over the economy again

Helena Drdlová: My experience as an EK trainee

No duplicated work regarding due diligence needed in EU deforestation regulation

Confidence in Finnish Industries Declined in June

Go West – A Visit of US & Canadian Honorary Consuls to the Confederation of Finnish Industries

The upcoming Czech EU presidency announces priorities

Confidence in Finnish Industries Decreased

Confidence in Finnish Industries Decreased

EK Business Tendency Survey: Russia’s attack on Ukraine cast a shadow on the business outlook

EU’s new Industrial Emissions Directive should facilitate environmental and climate-friendly investments

The revised Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) published on April 5, 2022 rightly aims to regulate...

EU’s Circular Economy Package rightly aims to make products and textiles more sustainable

Advancing towards greater sustainability of the textiles ecosystem requires deep changes in the currently prevailing...

Confidence in Finnish Industries Decreased

Finnish business and industry organisations: Finland should join the NATO defensive alliance

Time to speed up climate action and rapidly reduce dependency on fossil fuels

Webinar recording: Finnish perspective to sanctions against Russia

“Green and secure domestic energy supply more important than ever, Finland relies on nuclear power”

Senior Adviser Karolina Rasi represented Finnish Industries at Kirkenes Conference organised by Norway’s Barents Secretariat...

We Stand With You, Ukraine, Finnish Business Organizations say

Confidence in Finnish Industries Increased

BusinessEurope strongly condemns the invasion of Ukraine by Russia

Finnish business and trade unions: The competitive disadvantage of arctic shipping must be compensated

The competitiveness of Europe’s maritime sector must be ensured

The business cycle continues to be favourable, with a weaker outlook

Confidence in Finnish Industries Declined

International talents: Excessive Finnish language requirements are the biggest career obstacle in Finland

Confidence in Finnish Industries Declined

Finland’s SME Sustainability Barometer: Employees are the most important aspect of sustainability for SME employers

Confidence in Finnish Industries Increases

Finnish Industries: The EU needs stronger capital markets

Ministry of Social Affairs and Health’s proposal concerning mandatory pay transparency is incomprehensible

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has on 15th of November published a working...

Joint letter to von der Leyen and Vestager on current competition issues