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2026 policy priorities - turning point for Europe’s cleaning sector
5th of December 2025
As we head towards 2026, EFCI in Brussels says the EU has six key priorities for the coming year which will shape the future of cleaning and facilities services across member states.
As the European Union prepares to roll out its 2026 work programme, the cleaning and facility services sector finds itself at a critical juncture. With over 4.2
Brussels tackles stifling red tape
25th of November 2025
Brussels is rowing back on environmental legislation that is threatening to undermine the client-supplier relationship. The intervention is part of a wider purge of red tape stifling business innovation, investment and growth across the bloc, writes Hartley Milner.
Business leaders need no telling about the competitive advantages of having
World’s eyes on US tariff saga
28th of July 2025
When will the Trump tariffs madness end and how much more economic pain will the world have to endure before it does? Hartley Milner probes the US president’s combative policymaking for answers.
TRUMP’S TARIFF STRATEGY looked set to come crashing down around him following a damning court ruling last month … and could still do
Planet-conscious design
23rd of June 2025
More than half the world’s biggest and most powerful companies have set a target to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to net zero. To achieve that, businesses must address their entire environmental footprint.
Products and hygiene tools designed with those goals in mind can reduce a cleaning or FM company’s overall climate impact.
Rise of specialist qualifications
16th of June 2025
The industry is seeing an increase in more specialist aspects, reports Anna Garbagna from Italy.
The Pandemic has caused a widespread diffusion of sanitisation systems for domestic and working environments, as well as creating the need to establish benchmarks to assess the effectiveness and safety of indoor sanitisation methods.
This situation
Business enters the space race
13th of June 2025
Mega-rich entrepreneurs are seizing lucrative opportunities to boldly go where only government agencies with hefty budgets have gone before … and beyond. Hartley Milner explores the burgeoning commercial space industry, its trailblazers, triumphs and troughs.
As dawn breaks over California’s Mojave airport, White Knight, a
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