The Mouvement des entreprises de France (MEDEF), or the Movement of the Enterprises of France, is the largest
employer federation in
France
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. Established in 1998, it replaced the Conseil national du patronat Français (
CNPF), or the "National Council of the French Employers", which was founded in 1946.
It has more than 750,000 member firms, 90 percent of them being
small and medium enterprise
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are businesses whose personnel and revenue numbers fall below certain limits. The abbreviation "SME" is used by international organizations such as the World Ba ...
s (SMEs) with fewer than 50 employees. MEDEF is engaged in
lobbying
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at local, regional, national, and
EU-wide levels.
MEDEF Website
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Every year, MEDEF International organises a number of delegations of French business leaders with tangible projects to targeted countries, especially developing countries
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. MEDEF espouses “sustainable development
Sustainable development is an organizing principle for meeting human development goals while also sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services on which the economy and society depend. The ...
”, raising companies’ awareness to the fact that environmental protection can also feature among their competitive advantages.
Its current president, is Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux as of July 2018.
See also
* Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe (UNICE)
* Union des industries et métiers de la métallurgie (UIMM)
*Lisbon Agenda
The Lisbon Strategy, also known as the Lisbon Agenda or Lisbon Process, was an action and development plan devised in 2000, for the economy of the European Union between 2000 and 2010. A pivotal role in its formulation was played by the Portuguese ...
References
External links
Official site of the MEDEF
Employers' organizations
Business organizations based in France
1998 establishments in France
Organizations established in 1998
Organizations based in Paris
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