The Spanish government has announced a series of measures to support businesses affected by the COVID-19 crisis. Spain will provide €200 billion to support businesses affected by the outbreak. These measures include:
The Italian government has announced a number of significant measures to help Italian small businesses during the COVID-19 outbreak. These measures include:
Tax reliefs and other fiscal measures
This week the French government announced a series of measures to support businesses during and after the COVID-19 crisis. These measures include:
The Prime Minister of Ireland, Leo Varadkar, recently visited eBay’s office in Dublin to learn more about the company’s business in Ireland, meet local Irish eBay sellers and hear about eBay’s work in the community. Derek Allgood, eBay’s Vice President, Global Customer Experience, welcomed the Prime Minister and highlighted the success of eBay’s Retail Expansion Program, growth of the eBay@Home initiative, and the company’s charity and community partners.
Recently the eBay France team was heavily involved in the events surrounding the nomination of 40 companies as part of France’s “Next40” initiative. Céline Saada-Benaben, General Manager for eBay in France, was a member of the independent jury that had the task of choosing the selection criteria for the best performing start-ups on the French market.
As the European Commission has correctly identified, cross-border parcel delivery is a key building block of a fully functioning Digital Single Market. While the parcel delivery sector is innovating and evolving to serve online commerce, there are system failures that harm small infrequent senders in general and those in peripheral areas in particular.
The Need to Improve Regulation
It is an unfortunate reality that established industries in many sectors do not welcome the emergence of new business models that encourage competition, introduce transparency, and disrupt the existing value chain.
Being a trusted marketplace used by hundreds of millions of people across the world requires robust measures against illegal and prohibited items. eBay has hence developed strong internal processes and technologies as well as close partnerships with law enforcement and other relevant stakeholders to prevent illegal goods from being sold on our marketplace.
Intellectual Property Rights