EU Inc (the 28th regime) · 2026/0074(COD)
Supports a harmonised 28th regime for start-ups and scale-ups but wants it to address labour, tax, and capital market issues comprehensively and support both early and later-stage companies.
Support both early-stage start-ups and later-stage scale-ups with different needs.
“We encourage the Commission to ensure that this new regime supports both early-stage start-ups and later-stage scale-ups with different needs including flexible equity structures, digital capital increases, and simplified procedures for cross-border mobility.”
Feedback, 2025-07-11
Create an optional, digital-by-default EU company type with a recognisable brand trusted by investors and business partners.
“We also see merit in an optional, digital-by-default EU company type with a recognisable brand, trusted by investors and business partners alike.”
Feedback, 2025-07-11
Enable later-stage growth and IPOs by deepening EU capital markets and allowing flexible equity structures and digital capital increases.
“A new, unified legal form should also aim to level the playing field on stock-option taxation, deepen EU capital markets by enabling later-stage growth and IPOs... We encourage the Commission to ensure that this new regime supports both early-stage start-ups and later-stage scale-ups with different needs including flexible equity structures, digital capital increases...”
Feedback, 2025-07-11
Level the playing field on stock-option taxation to retain talent and investment within the EU.
“A new, unified legal form should also aim to level the playing field on stock-option taxation... and enhance the EUs strategic autonomy in critical technologies by retaining talent and investment within the Union.”
Feedback, 2025-07-11
Harmonise labour law broadly to include talent mobility, skills recognition, and remove barriers like fragmented visa procedures and inconsistent treatment of third-country nationals.
“Labour law harmonisation should be interpreted broadly to include talent mobility and skills recognition. Today, fragmented visa procedures and inconsistent treatment of third-country nationals pose real barriers to cross-border hiring and talent retention.”
Feedback, 2025-07-11
Address tax law in the new regime to reduce hidden costs and legal uncertainty for innovative companies operating across multiple EU countries.
“We welcome the Commissions recognition that this regime must go beyond simplified incorporation procedures and address critical dimensions such as a common corporate legal framework, labour, and tax law. These are areas where the current patchwork of national rules imposes hidden costs and legal uncertainty on innovative companies seeking to establish and grow their operations in multiple EU countries.”
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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