MEP explores issues facing small businesses

The Federation of Small Businesses is meeting with East Midlands Euro MP Emma McClarkin to explore the issues facing the self-employed and small firms in the UK.

The FSB is the UK’s largest campaigning pressure group that promotes and protects the interests of the self-employed and owners of small firms. It was formed in 1974 and now has  213,000 members across 33 regions and 230 branches.

Conservative MEP Emma McClarkin, who sits on the Internal Market Committee in the European Parliament which develops much of the EU’s business regulations, will on Monday have a tour hosted by the FSB of the Business and Intellectual Property Centre at the British Library. She will then be briefed by the FSB on various current commercial issues and policies that are impacting on small businesses.

Emma McClarkin comments:

“It is essential for me to understand and represent the concerns of small businesses in my work at the European Parliament. Large companies can cope easier than small and medium enterprises with the demanding and expensive pieces of EU legislation.

“I strongly believe that the EU should work for the benefit of small businesses and provide an entrepreneurial commercial environment in which new and existing small businesses can grow.”