The EU’s Single Market Strategy published todayat May 2025, offers a promising opportunity to reinvigorate Europe’s Single Market, break down barriers to trade, simplify the rulebook, and support businesses in the food and drink sector – but we would like to inject some urgency into the plans. As Europe’s largest manufacturing industry, the EU food and drink industry benefits greatly from trade across the Single Market. In fact, over 65% of all food...

The European Competitiveness Compass is a positive step forward, but success will depend on taking action. The EU food and drink industry – Europe’s largest manufacturing sector – supports the goals of the Compass to simplify regulation and better align EU and national policies. Competitiveness is critical for Europe’s food and drink makers, who face rising costs, a fragmented Single Market, labour shortages, and supply chain disruptions. As a strat...

Ahead of the forthcoming publication of the EU’s Vision for Agriculture & Food, FoodDrinkEurope has set out the expectations of the food and drink industry – Europe’s largest manufacturing industry – for a competitive, resilient, and sustainable food chain. First and foremost, we’re looking for a Vision that is focused on making a real impact for Europe’s food and drink makers. A Vision that proposes actions to help, not hinder. A Vi...

FoodDrinkEurope has published its Annual Report 2025, presenting the highlights of its work over the past year. Read more

14 industry associations call on EU policymakers to carefully evaluate options to simplify, clarify and streamline the Green Claims Directive during negotiations, through the lens of the simplification and competitiveness agenda. The introduction of proportionality and legal predictability in the substantiation and ex-ante verification requirements should be a key priority. Adopting a well-designed and simplified framework is essential to align the Directive with the EU&rsquo...