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Every year, around 450,000 businesses across Europe change hands — impacting 2 million jobs. Behind each of these transitions lies a powerful opportunity: not just to preserve value, but to scale innovation, foster resilience, and boost local economies.

Yet too often, business transfers remain overlooked in the political spotlight. That’s why Eurochambres, European Family Businesses, Transeo, CECOP, Cooperatives Europe, SMEunited, and AECM have joined forces to bring this essential issue to the forefront.

🧭 Together, they present “10 Suggestions to Support Business Transfer in the EU” — a bold, united call for smarter policy, better data, improved financing tools, and an entrepreneurial ecosystem that values continuity as much as creation.

This document is more than a position paper. It’s a roadmap for resilience, competitiveness and long-term growth — rooted in the conviction that Europe’s future lies not just in new ventures, but in empowering the next generation to carry the torch.

Dive in. Share. Act. The future of European business depends on it.0

Read the position paper