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Beer hospitality to drive Europe’s recovery
Getting back to bars, pubs, cafés and festivals with friends, family and the local community will be a symbol of recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, and will also help to reignite the whole European economy and rebuild society, according to The Brewers of Europe, the...
Europe’s food and drink trade unions and associations call on EU leaders to set up hospitality task force
Thirteen hospitality, drinks, food, and trade union representatives have jointly written to the presidents of the EU institutions calling for the immediate setting up of a hospitality recovery task force. The impact of COVID-19 has hit livelihoods and businesses hard,...
Millions of beer lovers on Untappd app can now check in and support hospitality sector
The Brewers of Europe has begun a partnership with popular beer rating app Untappd to boost support for the hospitality sector during the pandemic. Users of the app – downloaded by 8.5m people globally – have been ‘checking in’ at home instead of at their favourite...
Union and sector chiefs: set up hospitality task force across EU institutions
The heads of 13 European hospitality and value chain representing bodies and trade unions have jointly called for the immediate setting up of a hospitality task force across the EU Institutions to discuss the impact that COVID-19 has had on business and jobs, and to...
MEPs to create COVID recovery taskforce for hospitality sector
MEPs and the beer sector are working to create a special taskforce to help bars, pubs, restaurants and cafés recover from the economic effects of the pandemic. According to Ivan Štefanec, MEP and President of the European Parliament Beer Club, the taskforce aims to...
Letter to our Social Partners to urge EU leaders to agree a clear roadmap to recovery for the brewing & hospitality sector
Ahead of this week’s European Council, we are seeking the support of our Social Partners to urge EU leaders to agree a clear roadmap to recovery for the brewing & hospitality sector and to consider setting up a special Taskforce of key policymakers and...
Letter from Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis on supporting the recovery of Europe’s hospitality sector
Valdis Dombrovskis, Executive Vice-President of The European Commission states that under EU law, Member States can be flexible with VAT rates and indeed this can extend to beer served in hospitality establishments. Mr Dombrovskis was responding to a letter from a...
Urgent support of the hospitality sector needed, calls cross-party group of MEPs in letter to the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission
A cross-party group of MEPs have written to the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission to highlight the need for urgent support of the hospitality sector. Across Europe, the service and entertainment establishments, along with bars and restaurants, have...
European Commission confirms possibility for Member States to cut VAT on beer in the hospitality sector
The European Commission has written to The Brewers of Europe recognising the severe impact that COVID has had on the hospitality and beer sector across the Union, definitively shutting down many establishments and threatening the very existence of hundreds of...
EURACTIV: Real Facts, and Beer
Abraham Lincoln is often (mis-)quoted as saying “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.” The origins of “…and beer” are certainly much...
EURACTIV: Pubs ask for VAT cut on alcohol to face post-COVID reality
Europe’s hospitality sector has been hit hard by the lockdown measures enforced across the continent to contain the spread of COVID-19. In Belgium, pubs and restaurants were forced to shut down on 13 March. The Belgian government provided one-off payments and...
Brewers invite us to #RECONNECT
The Brewers of Europe have launched a campaign, under the concept of #reconnect, to call for ongoing support of the hospitality sector in the wake of the COVID19 crisis and lockdown. The hospitality sector is being invited to reopen, but this must be done in a safe...
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