🔔 #MeetingStandards Campaign reached over 600,000 people online! 🎉

This milestone confirms the vital role that standardisation plays in empowering SMEs across EU.

Thank you to every partner, SME, and individual who joined the movement and shared our message.

⏰ Last chance to join!

The @sbs-sme.bsky.social Annual Conference is this Thursday - a key discussion on how the renewable energy transition impacts and empowers #SMEs.

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💡 Unlock the Value Beyond Compliance! Discover our #SuccessStories during #MeetingStandardsWeek.

❗ Do you have your own standards success story to share? Join the conversation! Use #MeetingStandards and be sure to tag SBS to let us know how standards have benefited your work.

📣Our weekly #SME recap:
✅ #ThinkSmallFirst in action
✅ Single Market & SME Envoys
✅ #Preparedness & resilience
✅ #LatePayment: change needed
✅ Labour reforms & competitiveness
✅ Standardisation ROI
✅ #COP30: SME support
✅ #MeetingStandards: 17–21 Nov

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📣 This week’s #SME recap:
✅ From Athens’ democratic roots to Europe’s SME future
✅ #VAT in the Digital Age for all businesses
✅ What the Digital Fairness Act means for #SMEs
✅ Turning risks into #resilience
✅ Shape the future of standards - join #MeetingStandards

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📢 Our #SME recap:
📈 SME Business Climate Index rises to 74.1 points
💶 Wage increases fuel remaining #inflation
⚡ #ThinkSmallFirst on energy rules
🏗️ #SMEs key in future cohesion policy
🌱 SMEunited reselected to #ECESP Group
✳️ #MeetingStandards 2025

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📣Our #SME recap:
✅ Boosting #AI use among #SMEs
✅ 73% SMEs face #LatePayment
✅ #VSME Outreach: market support
✅ Sector & Digital policy priorities
✅ 70 steps for #SingleMarket Strategy
✅ Making #Omnibus VI & #28thRegime work for SMEs
❇️ #MeetingStandards 2025

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📣 Our #SME recap:
✅ EU Work Programme must reflect #SMEs
✅ SME-friendly #simplification in green rules
✅ Bigger ambition for the #SingleMarket
✅ EU Semester
✅ Tackle late payments
✅ Input on #SkillsPortability
✳️ #MeetingStandards 2025

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