EC Vice-President Antonio Tajani welcomed the progress on access to credits and simplification initiatives in the Member States. At the second meeting of the Network of SME Envoys on 6 February in Luxembourg, chaired by the EU SME Envoy, Mr Daniel Calleja Crespo, Member States informed about progress achieved in key areas. This included measures to accelerate procedures to start a company, increase SMEs’ access to finance, improving their participation rate in public procurement as well as in cutting red tape.

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