Category: Economy and Competitiveness
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One Giant Fund Would Bankroll Europe’s Fight to Stay Competitive
Turin: In a city that once built Italy’s cars and now courts battery and chip…
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Ten Stubborn Barriers Still Divide Europe’s Vast Single Market
Rotterdam: Goods move through Europe’s largest port with little friction, but the services and companies…
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Startups Gain a Single EU Company Form Under the EU Inc Plan
Bratislava: A founder in Slovakia who dreams of selling across the continent still runs into…
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Chinese EV Makers Seize a Record Share of Europe’s Roads
Brussels: European drivers are switching to electric cars faster than at any point in the…
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A New Competitiveness Fund Bets Big on Strategic Technology
Turin: Europe wants a single instrument to bankroll the industries it cannot afford to lose,…
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Looser State Aid Rules Let Governments Back Clean Industry Jobs
Taranto: The steelworkers who keep southern Italy’s largest plant running have long worried that Europe’s…
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Startups Gain a Single EU Rulebook as the 28th Regime Advances
Vilnius: A founder in the Baltic tech scene who wants to sell across the Union…
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Europe and Japan Build a Bloc Against Economic Coercion
Tokyo: The factories and shipyards of western Japan have become an unlikely stake in Europe’s…
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Made in Europe Rules Force a Reckoning Over High-Carbon Steel
Duisburg: In the steel city on the Rhine, furnace operators are watching Brussels as closely…
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Founders Back EU Inc as Europe Weighs a Single Company Rulebook
Brussels: Momentum is building behind EU Inc, the single company rulebook the European Commission proposed…
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Clean Industrial Deal Bets Big on a Decarbonisation Bank
The Clean Industrial Deal is about to be judged less on its rhetoric than on…
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Simpler Rulebook Aims to Lift Europe’s Sagging Growth
Rotterdam: Europe is trying to talk its way out of stagnation by cutting the paperwork…
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Europe’s Patience With China’s Factory Glut Runs Out
Milan: For three years Europe has repeated the same phrase about China, de-risking, not decoupling,…
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Europe’s House Prices Outpace Wages as Brussels Readies a Plan
Lisbon: Portugal recorded the sharpest jump in home values anywhere on the continent this year,…
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Single Market Overhaul Takes Centre Stage in Europe’s Growth Plan
Eindhoven: The Dutch technology hub that grew around a former lightbulb maker has become shorthand…
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Banks Move to the Heart of Europe’s Competitiveness Push
Frankfurt: From the trading floors that anchor Europe’s financial capital, the message from the European…
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Europe Extends Its Sustainability Rulebook to Foreign Groups
Brussels: The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group has pushed sustainability reporting from a European habit…
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Simplification Drive Trims 14 Billion Euro in Business Red Tape
Stuttgart: In the industrial heart of southern Germany, where mid-sized engineering firms supply the world,…
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EU Inc Push Aims to Let Founders Launch Firms in 48 Hours
Brussels: The European Commission is pressing member states and the European Parliament to turn EU…
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Europe’s 28th Regime Wants to Reinvent the Startup
Brussels: For years, a founder in Europe who wanted to sell across the continent faced…
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Sustainability Reporting Rules Shed Most of Their Data
The EU’s sustainability reporting rules just lost most of their bulk. On 3 July 2026…
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Competitiveness Fund Anchors the EU’s Next Seven-Year Budget
Brussels: The proposed European Competitiveness Fund sits at the centre of the EU’s next long-term…
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State Aid Rules Loosen to Speed Europe’s Clean Factories
Antwerp: Europe has torn up part of its rulebook on public subsidy, betting that faster…
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Draghi’s Competitiveness Agenda Stalls One Year After Launch
Rome: In the city where Mario Draghi began his career at the Bank of Italy,…