
The Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU has set out its priorities for the first half of 2026, taking over the six-month rotating Presidency from Denmark in…
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The Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU has set out its priorities for the first half of 2026, taking over the six-month rotating Presidency from Denmark in…

Isabel Viegas is the Co-Founder of dNovo, a Portuguese non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting highly qualified unemployed professionals over the age of…

By Amy Louise Goodman
The European Commission’s 2025 SME Assembly marked a clear departure in focus from recent years. Sustainability, which once were of…

As the year draws to a close, what better way to reflect than through the eyes of the young people shaping Europe’s future, revisiting the event where SME policy comes to life.<…

FLASHGuard team wins HealthtechLisboa Prize following Youth Start-Up Competition victory
Less than a month after winning the Youth Start-Up Competition (YSC) 2025<…

At the SME Assembly 2025 in Copenhagen, Alexander Lembcke (Head of the Economic Analysis Unit in the OECD's Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities…

By Amy Louise Goodman
“Big and successful companies continue to fascinate all of us, [but] today’s standard model of entrepreneurship celebrates an exceptional few and…

By Reema Dandachi
At 23, Gonçalo Ribeiro is already navigating two worlds: the academic institutes of physics and the fast-moving arena of entrepreneurship. What began as a ‘crazy…

By Ana Navarro Bulló
Being a citizen of the European Union (EU) means either having a good chance of owning a small or medium-sized…
“Every day enterprises are neither little big businesses nor laggard fast-growth businesses – they are enterprises in their own right,” reminded Professor Friederike Welter as the SME Assembly…