EU Inc (the 28th regime) · 2026/0074(COD)
Calls for a single, harmonized EU company regime that removes bureaucratic barriers but wants it designed with direct input from entrepreneurs to ensure it truly supports innovation and growth.
Allow any company, including innovative startups and scale-ups, to use the new EU company form to avoid patchwork national regulations.
“The current bureaucratic landscape for innovative companies in the EU is stifling growth, innovation, and competitiveness.”
Feedback, 2025-07-11
Create a single, harmonized set of rules with simplified, accessible procedures to reduce administrative burden and delays in opening or closing businesses.
“The cumulative effect of these bureaucratic obstacles is enormouscompanies spend thousands of euros and countless hours on compliance, while opening or closing a business can take months.”
Feedback, 2025-07-11
Simplify and harmonize rules on cross-border hiring, employment contracts, social security, and payroll to enable startups to recruit talent across the EU without excessive red tape.
“Cross-border hiring is equally burdened by unnecessary red tape... The administrative burden is so overwhelming that many companies simply abandon plans to hire across borders.”
Feedback, 2025-07-11
Harmonize tax rules across Member States, especially VAT and tax treatment of employee stock options, to remove barriers for startups expanding and offering equity compensation.
“Each Member State has its own VAT requirements... Employee participation, particularly through stock options and equity-based compensation, is another area where EU bureaucracy holds back innovation.”
Feedback, 2025-07-11
Open source underneath
WhoShapedIt is a thin layer on open-source packages. Star them, fork them, build your own micro.
Open-source context and state for AI: it keeps only what matters for the question.
In WhoShapedIt: Reads every lobby submission and position paper and each official text, cut into passages, and judges each passage against nine questions (who can use EU Inc, workers on the board, tax…), so every ask and every step is read on the passages that address it.
Open-source Svelte components for clean, accessible interfaces.
In WhoShapedIt: The status, the timeline, the theme picker, the camps of lobbies and the organisation pages.
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