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The European Commission has proposed EU Inc., a harmonised 28th regime corporate legal framework designed to simplify cross-border business for startups and venture capital companies across the EU's twenty-seven Member States. While promising a more digital and uniform company form, questions remain about how harmonised it will truly be when critical aspects like share transfers, disputes, financing, insolvency and enforcement remain tied to national laws of individual Member States.

The European Commission's proposal for EU Inc. represents the first genuine attempt to develop a directly applicable body of European company law designed to strengthen global competitiveness rather than merely coordinate national systems. This ambitious initiative seeks to address Europe's structural "scale-up gap" by providing legal infrastructure that enables innovative start-ups to access capital and scale without relocating outside the Union, while maintaining universal availability across all company