Press Release: UK and 18 other EU countries call for business red tape reduction

Eighteen EU member states joined the United Kingdom in November 2015 calling on the EU to slash burdens on business, demonstrating a clear commitment from across Europe to the UK’s competitiveness agenda. The governments called for a new target to reduce burdens on business, ‘unleashing potential of all businesses’.

• Primary Source

Blog: Open Europe, 27.11.15: Welcome news: 19 countries call for targets on cutting EU regulation http://openeurope.org.uk/blog/targets-on-cutting-eu-regulation/

UK: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills: Correspondence, 27.11.15: EU better regulation: joint letter to the European Commission https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-better-regulation-joint-letter-to-the-european-commission

Politico, 27.11.15: UK heads European push for targets on red tape http://www.politico.eu/article/uk-heads-european-push-for-targets-on-red-tape/

Blog: LSE EuroppBlog, 03.12.15: Tough competition: Why cutting regulation is so hard for the EU http://bit.ly/1IqJeTY

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