The EU Inc. - half European, fully digital, and genuinely innovative
Working Paper Author/Authors
Key Finding
The proposed “EU Inc.” introduces a flexible, digital-first, harmonized company form to reduce fragmentation in EU company law, but remains a hybrid system reliant on national laws rather than a fully supranational regime
Abstract
The EU Inc. is intended to create a harmonised limited liability company that offers great flexibility in particular for start-ups and scale-ups and is based on the guiding principles of “digital-only" and “once-only". The paper discusses the main contents of the European Commission's proposal for a regulation presented on 18 March 2026 and evaluates them in the context of national and European company law.
© Jessica Schmidt, Christoph Teichmann, 2026
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