Marcin Nowacki, President of the European Enterprise Alliance and Vice-President of the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers, and Tomasz Wróblewski, President of the Warsaw Enterprise Institute, are members of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), an EU advisory body which represents employers’ and employees’ organisations in the EU lawmaking process. We present a summary of their activities in February 2021…

For months, the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers has been proposing to introduce a uniform 5% VAT rate for the entire food catering industry. Contrary to public opinion, the essence of this change is not the idea to increase the demand for these services by lowering prices. A lower VAT rate would benefit restaurateurs whose activities would become much more profitable after re-opening, which would in turn enable them to recover in spite of a lower turnover…

On 4th March 2021, the European Commission presented the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan. The European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) is a set of 20 principles that were announced in 2017 at the Social Summit for Fair Jobs and Growth in Gothenburg, Sweden. The a vision of Europe possessing a strong social aspect has become one of the political objectives of the European Commission under the leadership of Ursula von der Leyen…