Author: The New European
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«Towards a Single Market built around SMEs» – ‘Luc Hendrickx’, UEAPME
Interview with Luc Hendricx, Director of Competitiveness of Enterprises and External Relations at UEAPME, on how the EU can create a better environment for SMEs.
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Migrant entrepreneurship
New European shows a sense of belonging to Europe, which also implies a willingness to contribute to European society. Katrin Marchand is currently a PhD fellow at the United Nations University-MERIT and Maastricht Graduate School of Governance. Her dissertation is on the topic of migration and entrepreneurship, more specifically in the country of origin, but…
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EU-Japan FTA
The negotiation of EU-Japan FTA (Free Trade Agreement), one of the Mega-FTAs that would cover one-third of global GDP, is now about to be concluded. Negotiators of both sides are willing to achieve this goal within early 2016, and the latest round of negotiation will take place in February. Since the kick-off of negotiation in…
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Women in Entrepreneurship
Women form approximately half of the European population and in the last decade they started to become important participants in the economy as entrepreneurs. In 2014, the number of women entrepreneurs has been estimated to be around 11 million. Entrepreneurship among women is increasingly recognised as a key source of job creation and innovation. The…
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Empowering entrepreneurial New Europeans
Jean Monnet was saying that the European project can only succeed if national governments equip all young people through education with the tools to fully exploit their potential. What happens, however, when you feel disconnected from the community you live in? Schools are among the best places for integration: it is often where young people…
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From the Ancient Silk Road to the One Belt, One Road Initiative.
The Ancient Silk Road was a network of trade routes, established during the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD). It was connecting Changan (Xian) in China to Venice and the Roman Empire in the West. These roads not only built a network of trade but also facilitated the cultural exchanges between two big civilisations.…
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Duo for a job
Duo for a Job is a Brussels-based association whose mission is to put in contact immigrant youth seeking for employment (so-called mentees) with experienced professionals in (early) retirement (mentors), ideally from the same professional sector, in order to support the young person in his/her job search. The young professional, forming a duo with the mentor,…
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10 Benefits of using Social media for your company
“If you are online, you are everywhere” states a well-known fact that informational technologies have transformed and reinvented the way of working for the majority of the organizations. One third of all the population worldwide has access to internet and the lion’s share of it is coming from developed countries. For millions of people, social…
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Peace business of destroying landmines – ‘Mine Kafon’.
Living in Afghanistan as a kid, Massoud Hassani used to create windblown toys that rolled around the desert. As a teenager he sought refuge in the Netherlands and now he has created the Mine Kafon, a device which rolls around the desert moved by the wind and detonates the landmines it meets along the way.…
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Is Schengen Area an added-value for EU countries?
30 years after the creation of the Schengen Area, it is the right time to assess its achievement and added-value. This area having more than 8 000 km of land borders and more than 40 000 km of sea borders is one of the most important acquis of the European Union. Recently, many EU citizens…