EU Inc (the 28th regime) · 2026/0074(COD)
Supports the 28th Regime proposal to create an optional EU-wide company form that facilitates scaling for start-ups and scale-ups across Member States, including steward-ownership options for mission-driven businesses.
Back the optional EU-wide company form specifically designed for European start-ups and scale-ups to reduce fragmentation and legal barriers.
“The proposed regime would reduce these obstacles, offering an optional EU-wide company form to facilitate easier scaling across Member States, enhancing the competitiveness of European companies.”
Feedback, 2025-09-30
Support a simplified and integrated EU legal framework to streamline cross-border operations and reduce legal complexities and costs for SMEs.
“The current fragmentation of the EU market creates significant barriers for SMEs, particularly in the tech sector, by increasing legal complexities and costs.”
Feedback, 2025-09-30
Include steward-ownership options in the company form to ensure long-term, mission-aligned governance, especially benefiting open-source and mission-driven companies.
“We also fully support the inclusion of steward-ownership options, which would be especially beneficial for open-source companies and mission-driven businesses.”
Feedback, 2025-09-30
Ensure governance models that protect open-source projects from hostile takeovers and maintain community-driven development focused on the public good.
“This governance model safeguards the integrity of open-source software by preventing hostile takeovers, "killer acquisitions," or changes that would undermine community-driven development, ensuring that these projects remain focused on the public good rather than profit maximization.”
Feedback, 2025-09-30
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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