The Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers is critical of the introduction of the next stage of shutting down the economy. The Union calls for actions aimed at the unlocking of all closed sectors, the implementation of educational activities aimed at citizens and entrepreneurs, as well as the enforcement of the sanitary regime in the DDM standard and epidemic guidelines for all industries…

On Tuesday, 15th December 2020, the European Commission’s legislative proposal on the Digital Services Act (hereinafter referred to as “DSA”) was published. Public consultations conducted by the European Commission concerning the shape of future regulations, in which the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers took part, ended on 9th September. Moreover, the European Enterprise Alliance and SME Connect also presented their opinions in this respect…

The single market is one of the European Union’s greatest achievements to date. Nonetheless, protectionism remains a major problem affecting most entrepreneurs and hampering the development of the single market. Eliminating existing barriers could attract an additional EUR 17 billion in investment annually and generate a further 1.3 million jobs, which are key to restoring the competitiveness of the European economy after the pandemic…

On 8th December 2020 at 7:00 am GMT, the first person in Europe was vaccinated against the effects of the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. At the same time, a document was published in Poland called the National Vaccination Programme against COVID-19…

From the beginning of the legislative process, the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers emphasised there were no rational arguments for the need to cover limited partnerships with CIT. The theses contained in the explanatory memorandum to the draft act turned out, one after another, to be false. Neither limited partnerships are used for purposes of tax optimisation (we stress once again that the Ministry of Finance itself admitted that the tax scheme using limited partnerships was only challenged six times basing on the anti-tax avoidance clause), nor has there been an unreasonable or detached from economic reality increase in recent years in their number…

The Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers hereby presents a comparison of European lockdown policies. In our latest study, Union experts analysed the measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic put in place by ten European countries. To assess the restrictiveness of the introduced measures, we took into account the following: the possibility of movement and the functioning of schools, shops, services, restaurants, hotels and culture…