{"id":69867,"date":"2026-04-28T03:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/69867\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T03:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:51:23","slug":"von-der-leyen-chases-startups-but-unions-see-danger-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/69867\/","title":{"rendered":"Von der Leyen chases startups, but unions see danger \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lack of ambition<\/p>\n

That lack of ambition has irked another set of stakeholders \u2014 startup founders and venture capital firms \u2014 which lobbied hard for the regulation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe try to focus on the positives,\u201d said Andreas Klinger, an Austrian investor who, along with half a dozen other founders, championed the single corporate legal form. Their campaign even persuaded Commission President Ursula von der Leyen<\/a> to adopt the U.S.-style \u201cEU Inc.\u201d rebrand of the proposal.<\/p>\n

One hole in the proposal announced by McGrath on March 18 that Klinger sees is the lack of a Delaware-style disputes tribunal.<\/p>\n

\"\"European Commissioner Michael McGrath speaks to the media in Brussels on March 18, 2026. | Thierry Monasse\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The blueprint to create a new interface for company law, while not seriously harmonizing labor, taxation, or insolvency standards, might miss the mark if the goal is to keep European founders from flocking to Delaware.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very, very small improvement with close to zero macroeconomic impact. But it\u2019s starting in the right range,\u201d said Matthias Bauer, a researcher at ECIPE, a liberal economic policy think tank based in Brussels.<\/p>\n

That EU Inc. will allow firms to skirt certain labor standards, while failing to harmonize rules on products, services, or tax, will keep it from being truly effective. \u201cYou would still have to hire an army of advisers,\u201d added Bauer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lack of ambition That lack of ambition has irked another set of stakeholders \u2014 startup founders and venture…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[12818,3030,211,4893,210,4740,2013,441,814,190,6805,49,6908,21477,3654,28587,685,213,1866,6909,591,1537,240,294,76,1888,38090,5030],"class_list":["post-69867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-accountability","tag-austria","tag-belgium","tag-borders","tag-brussels","tag-companies","tag-courts","tag-employment","tag-energy","tag-germany","tag-growth","tag-industry","tag-labor","tag-michael-mcgrath","tag-negotiations","tag-political-economy","tag-regulation","tag-rights","tag-services","tag-single-market","tag-startups","tag-tax","tag-trade","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-venture-capital","tag-welfare"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116480303808269668","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}