Joint statement of the Central and Eastern European Initiative (CEEI)
Recommendations for EU 2024 2029

The current 2019-2024 EU term has been marked by unforeseen crises. The global COVID 19 pandemic has been joined by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. Institutions, businesses, and citizens have been operating in crisis mode for almost four y ears by now.

These crises have come upon the Europeans at a time when they were adopting far reaching cross sectoral policies to achieve the aims of the green and digital twin transition, resulting in significant regulatory burden for European companies. However, the i mminent threats of both the epidemic and the war to individuals, to governments, and to the stability of Europe’s geopolitical set up highlighted the need for policy measures to adequately respond to such challenges.

The representatives of CEEI six industry federations from Central and Eastern Europe Europe1 (Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia) - agree upon the necessity of a joint, coordinated action to offset the effects of these unprecedented crises. Our manifesto highlights the most essential points for the upcoming EU legislation on how to successfully tackle current and future challenges in our region.

More in attached document (on the left).