Business body says crisis offers Europe opportunities

The financial crisis offers Europe an opportunity to ensure a prosperous future with a competitive industry and services sector that is fit to face the future, according to the director general of BusinessEurope, Markus Beyrer.

He took the helm at the Brussels-based organisation on Jan 1, as the group battles with change and the effects of the crisis.

He hopes his experiences in his home country of Austria will help ease the way.