Abstract
The article has the purpose to illustrate the financing of SME occurred in the main European countries in the period 2009-2014, to study the features of SME, problems met in access to credit in a period of recession like the present. In particular the aim is going to study through the reworking of the data collected in the research “Survey on the Access to finance of Enterprises” promoted by EU, the evolution of the sources of external financing, the obstacles faced by SME and future expectations.L'opera è pubblicata sotto Licenza Creative Commons - 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)