The EVBB – together with 35 associations of small and medium-sized enterprises from all over Europe followed the lead of the European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME to sign the following resolution.

The resolution was unanimously approved in online conference on April 2nd 2020 by the Extraordinary General Assembly of European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME presided by Mario Ohoven, by David Caro, President of ESBA the European Small Business Alliance, by AMSP, the Czech SME Association, represented by its president Karel Dobeš, as well as by EVBB, the European Association of Institutes for Vocational Training, represented by its Secretary General Horst Dreimann.

To address the urgent need of the points in the resolution, it was sent together with a letter to the president of European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.

Resolution

European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME, the biggest European confederation of voluntarily associated Micro, Small and Medium-sized companies, together with ESBA, the European Small Business Alliance, AMSP, the Czech SME Association, and EVBB, the European Association of Institutes for Vocational Training, are deeply concerned about the health and economic situation in Europe in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Not only hundreds of thousands of people are infected and suffer, and tens of thousands are dying, but also hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Micro-, Small- and Medium-sized enterprises risk to die. It is inevitable to fight the pandemic by limiting the economic activities and the movement of the European citizens, but it is equally inevitable to urgently avoid the risk of losing everything as a great part of the more than 23 million MSMEs in Europe is running.

Read the full resolution here.