Press Release: Prodi and ten Commissioners attend European Business Summit to shape European innovation

Previews and reports from the European Business Summit, Brussels, 9-11 June 2000. The European Business Summit, organised by the European and Belgian employers' federations UNICE and FEB, gave some of the most senior business people worldwide the chance to deliver concrete proposals to EU Commissioners on ways of making the European economy more dynamic and innovative. President Romano Prodi and Commissioner Erkki Liikanen delivered keynote speeches at the event, and nine other Commissioners participated in workshops devoted to e-business, biotechnology, trade, intellectual property, start-up funding, R&D and labour markets.

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