Category: Economy and Competitiveness
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How One EU Rulebook Could Reboot the Single Market
Europe’s founders built a single market for goods decades ago, yet a startup that wants…
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Tax Simplification Package Offers Firms Eight Billion in Relief
Rotterdam: A small exporter that trades across four countries can spend more on paperwork than…
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Europe’s Competitiveness Fund Faces Its Draghi Moment
Frankfurt: Nearly two years after Mario Draghi warned that Europe faced a slow agony without…
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Batteries and Rare Earths Pull Tokyo Closer to Brussels
Tokyo: Two economies that live by trade are quietly building a wall around the materials…
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Brussels Stakes 234 Billion Euros on One Competitiveness Fund
Brussels: The Competitiveness Fund that the European Commission wants at the heart of its next…
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Simplification Push Promises 18 Billion Euros in Annual Savings
Munich: Europe’s drive to cut its own red tape has reached a tangible figure. The…
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Single Market Barriers Cost Europe as Reform Drive Loses Speed
Luxembourg: Nearly two years after Mario Draghi warned that Europe risked a slow economic decline,…
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Brussels Cuts Its Sustainability Reporting Load by Two-Thirds
Brussels: When the European Commission adopted its revised sustainability reporting standards on 3 July 2026,…
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Late Payment Rules Stall as Governments Guard Their Own Bills
Milan: Small suppliers across the single market keep financing their larger customers whether they want…
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Red Tape Cuts Promise a Stronger Single Market for Business
Milan: Manufacturers in Italy’s industrial north have spent years grumbling that the single market feels…
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Can a 28th Regime Finally Let EU Startups Scale
Brussels: For years founders have complained that building a company across Europe means rebuilding it…
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Brussels Pushes for One Single Market as Competitiveness Slips
Brussels: Europe’s single market is the Union’s crown jewel and, increasingly, its biggest worry, as…
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A New Industrial Bill Asks How Far Brussels Should Intervene
Europe’s push to rebuild its industrial base moved from rhetoric toward hard law this week,…
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Competitiveness Tops the Agenda as Ireland Takes Council Reins
Delivery, not grand vision, is the theme of the six months that began on 1…
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One Giant Fund Would Swallow Dozens of Smaller EU Programmes
Turin: In the industrial belt of northern Italy, where machine-tool makers and battery start-ups compete…
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Why Brussels Is Rewriting Its Corporate Conscience Law
When the European Commission opened a public consultation on how to implement its corporate sustainability…
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Firms Await a Single EU Rulebook to Ease Cross-Border Growth
Vienna: A founder who wants to sell across Europe still meets 27 versions of nearly…
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How the EU’s 28th Regime Aims to Unify Business Rules
The EU 28th regime is the Commission’s boldest attempt yet to give companies one European…
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Brussels Softens Its Due Diligence Rules Under Pressure
When the European Commission opened a public consultation this summer on how to implement its…
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What Europe and Japan Want From Their Competitiveness Pact
Tokyo: The Competitiveness Alliance that the European Union and Japan launched at their most recent…
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Brussels Eases Rules to Help Small Mid-Cap Firms Grow
Milan: The Council of the European Union and the European Parliament struck a provisional deal…
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Slovakia Secures EU Backing for a Big Cleantech Factory Plan
Bratislava: Slovakia has won the European Commission’s approval for a one-billion-euro scheme to expand its…
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Will a Price Floor Tame China’s EV Surge Into Europe?
Beijing: After more than a year of friction over subsidised Chinese electric vehicles, the European…
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Capital Markets Reform Becomes Europe’s Next Competitiveness Test
Vienna: Europeans are famously good at saving and famously bad at investing what they save.…