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European entrepreneurs and investors have long complained about the EU’s fragmented regulatory landscape. While a real entrepreneur will always find ways to clear hurdles, this way of doing business adds unnecessary red tape and makes growth for companies and investments more complicated and costly. This has prompted a group of European founders, investors and legal experts to launch EU-INC, an initiative that aims to simplify everything and allow startups to grow.
EU-INC is a pan-European solution designed to unify and simplify how startups operate across the continent. It envisions a single new legal entity that is recognized across all EU member states, supported by a central EU-level registry. With standardized investment documents, EU-wide stock options and locally adapted taxes and employment rules, EU-INC can empower every founder to build and scale across Europe without unnecessary regulatory barriers.
EU-INC’s goal is to make this a reality and it has gained momentum and support from a large base of startup founders, funds and legal firms. Following this push, the proposal is now being discussed in Brussels.
There is no doubt this would be a great achievement and a game-changer. It would unleash Europe’s talent and ambition to create world-leading companies instead of being slowed and sometimes stopped by the fragmentation between nations. Its creators often remind European policymakers that even European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen noted in October 2024: “A startup from California can expand and raise money all across the United States. But a startup in Europe has to deal with 27 different national barriers. We need to make it easier to grow in Europe.”
