The SME Performance Review is one of the main tools the European Commission uses to monitor and assess countries’ progress in implementing the Small Business Act (SBA) on a yearly basis. With an emphasis on the measures from the SBA Action Plan, the review brings comprehensive information on the performance of SMEs in EU countries and other partner countries. It consists of two parts: an annual report on European SMEs and SBA country fact sheets.
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Summarizing the main points, the year 2016 marked the third consecutive year of steady increases in EU SME employment and value added, and was also the year in which the employment exceeded the pre-crisis level for the first time.
However, we’ll still need a few more years of growth to leave the effects of the crisis behind, because some countries recovered better than others.