Neighbourhood and Enlargement Priorities for the 2024-2029 EU term

Eurochambres supports the new impetus given to EU enlargement. With its network of chambers of commerce and industry spanning the continent, Eurochambres is in a unique position to help the business community in the candidate and potential candidate countries in the economic and societal changes implied by the accession process. More widely, Eurochambres supports enhanced trade and investment relations between the EU and respectively the candidate and potential candidate and the EU neighbouring countries with a view to improve SME competitiveness. 

 For the next legislative period 2024-2029, Eurochambres urges EU policymakers to:

• Further support SME competitiveness in the EU aspiring and EU neighbouring countries and in particular improve the business environment
• Enhance public-private dialogue both at national level and between the EU and the respective national governments
• Enhance support to Ukraine’s reconstruction and recovery and ensure the involvement of SMEs in the reconstruction and recovery process
• Encourage gradual accession of the candidate and potential candidate countries to the EU single market prior accession
• Further involve the business community at the different stages of the EU accession process
• Adopt a clear timeframe for the implementation of the reforms in the candidate and potential candidate countries
• Promote the Common Regional Market in the Western Balkans
• Enhance trade and investment relations between the EU and Türkiye and support the modernisation of the EU-Türkiye Customs Union