Tunisia-EU-DCFTA - FTDES Urges Increasing Micro-Enterprises' Resilience to European Competition

Tunis/Tunisia — The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) has called in a new study to increase the resilience of national microenterprises and the entrepreneurial fabric that it describes as "fragile" against European competition under the "Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA).

In this study entitled "Study of the expected impact of the DCFTA on microenterprises in trade and services sectors in Tunisia", FTDES recommends directing development programmes and budgetary support to the extension of water, gas and telecommunications networks (telephone and Internet) and facilitate the connection of ME (medium-sized enterprises) to these basic services.

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