Opening Up European Companies to a Global Vision

Promising businesses in many euro-zone countries can’t access the funding they require to grow and create wealth. Economics professor Enrico Colombatto asserts that big banks, regulators and governments have corralled the vast resources unleashed by the European Central Bank and used them to prop up banks and fund government spending rather than to support the real economy. While banks willingly deal with large cash-rich corporations, small companies with regional and even global potential are left out in the financial cold. getAbstract recommends this sobering assessment of the future of Europe’s small enterprises to bankers, policy makers, and, especially, small-business owners and entrepreneurs.