Category: Economy and Competitiveness
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Twelve Omnibus Packages Later the Terrible Ten Remain in Place
Eindhoven: By June 2026 the Commission had tabled twelve omnibus simplification proposals, which it calculates…
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Company Wallet Clears Committee With the Hardest Question Unsettled
Ljubljana: A Slovenian logistics operator opening a subsidiary in three neighbouring countries will, on current…
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Swiss Package Clears Its Committee and Waits Two Years for Bern
Bern: The European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee approved the Bilaterals III package on 10 September…
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One Company Code for Twenty-Seven Markets Faces Its Test
Turin: The Union’s answer to its own fragmentation is not another directive but an opt-in…
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Housing Act Hands Cities Rules They Must Now Justify
Palma: Every European city that has tried to restrict short-term letting has ended up in…
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The Accelerator Act Asks Public Buyers to Choose Europe by 2029
Eindhoven: Machine builders in this Dutch manufacturing cluster sell into public tenders across the continent,…
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Why a Price Floor Is Harder to Police Than a Tariff
Hefei: The Anhui plant that builds the CUPRA Tavascan for European buyers became, in February,…
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Von der Leyen Hangs Her Agenda on Own Resources Capitals Reject
Dublin: Ursula von der Leyen tied her entire autumn agenda to own resources on 16…
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Europe’s Public Procurement Rules Shrink to a Single Regulation
Gdańsk: A municipal engineer preparing a tender in this Polish port works through national law…
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EU Inc Has a Timetable but Still No Compromise Text
Cork: A founder who wants to incorporate once and sell across the single market has…
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Parliament Wants Half of Every Green Contract Made in Europe
Sagunto: The gigafactory rising on this stretch of Valencian coast will sell into a European…
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Dublin Gives Itself Until December to Finish the 28th Regime
Cork: The pharmaceutical and software firms clustered around the harbour incorporate in Ireland partly because…
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Public Buyers Would Get a European Preference and One Rulebook
Every year public authorities across the Union spend roughly two trillion euros on everything from…
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One Company Form Still Meets Twenty-Seven Tax Codes
Vilnius: Founders here already incorporate a company in a morning, which makes the Lithuanian capital…
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Why Korea’s Competitiveness Partnership Needs More Than Dialogue
Ulsan: The shipyards, refineries and battery plants along Korea’s south-eastern coast sell into a European…
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Public Procurement Gets One Rulebook and a European Preference
Brussels: The European Commission proposed on 9 September 2026 to replace the bloc’s three public…
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Mid-Caps Win a Legal Category Worth Billions in Paperwork
Vicenza: The engineering firms in this part of the Veneto employ six hundred people, export…
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Entrepreneurs Get an Optional Company Code and a Tight Deadline
Toulouse: A founder who wants to incorporate once and sell across the Union still cannot…
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Why Late Payments Top the Single Market Agenda With No Law Left
Malmö: The European Commission named late payments one of its enforcement priorities for the single…
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Founders Get 48 Hours to Register While Ministers Take Years
Espoo: Finnish founders describe the same journey when they raise a second round. The lawyers…
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Europe’s Carbon Border Rules Leave Steel Users Exposed to 2028
Ten symbolic coffins will travel down Rue de la Loi on Monday morning, carried by…
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The Single Market Roadmap Runs Out of Road at the End of 2027
Brussels: The European Union’s single market repair job now runs on a countdown, and the…
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Made in Europe Arrives in Tender Documents on 9 September
Aarhus: A Danish city buying school meals, a Portuguese hospital tendering for scanners and a…
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Will Ten Omnibus Packages Add Up to Real Simplification for Firms
Brussels: Simplification has become the Commission’s favourite word and its least finished project. Since February…