K&H: Half of the SMEs expect share from EU funds

The EU co-funded aid applications remain important sources for businesses. An average of every second small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) consider it realistic, that they will receive this type of support – shows K&H's SME confidence index research.

According to the results of the research; mostly the agri-businesses and companies with higher turnover are the most optimistic among the SMEs, over accessing EU-funds. However, in terms of specific applications the industrial, manufacturing companies feeling themselves in preference, because about 39 percent of them indicated that they recently heard about a tender that their company is seriously interested in. This rate is 33 percent for service companies, 32 for commercial firms, and only 25 percent for agricultural firms – reports MTI.