After the office of SME representative has remained vacant at EU level to this day (VERE reported: No SME representative), the Federal Cabinet appointed Gitta Connemann, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, as the Federal Government Commissioner for SMEs on 28 May 2025. The Federal Ministry of Economics reports on its website.
The future Federal Government Commissioner for SMEs will conceptually summarise the key activities of the Federal Government in the area of SME policy. She represents the federal government's SME policy to the outside world and is the point of contact for the concerns of SMEs and their associations. The Commissioner also represents the concerns of SMEs within the Federal Government and in Parliament, says the Federal Ministry of Economics.
The VERE Association welcomes the appointment of Gitta Connemann as Federal Government Commissioner for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: “We are delighted to know that Gitta Connemann's representation of the concerns of small and medium-sized enterprises within the Federal Government and in Parliament is in good hands. The SME sector needs her hands-on personality, which is always focussed on the matter in hand rather than ideology, now more than ever,” said VERE board member Hjalmar Vierle in Hamburg today.
VERE e.V. will be happy to discuss with the SME Commissioner how to secure the competitiveness of German SMEs in the area of product responsibility, particularly in light of the new EU internal market strategy.
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