Security needs competitiveness. On the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, today I joined Iwona Anna Biernat, Ann Mettler and Dr. Barbara Mehner to talk about the importance of EU–INC. The EU Inc must be a genuine European alternative to a Delaware Corp. We need one structure, one digital-first European registry, one rulebook. In Iwona's words, "anything less is status quo with better branding". Doing what's right is going to roughen some feathers among incumbents - businesses that rely on Europe's fragmentation - but we *must* move forward. It's now or never. Companies like Proxima Fusion can't be just German, Italian or French - we are born European, and we must be able to work as European. President Ursula von der Leyen, Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva: we count on your leadership to drive EU Inc to be EU regulation rather than a directive, and to do it fast, in 2026. On today's panel, I shared among other things about my frustration with existing stock options programs, especially in Germany - they are utterly inadequate. Founders shouldn't have to apologize to their team members for legislation that they didn't make, yet that's a common experience. If we get EU Inc right (hey, there's a good script to do so: https://www.eu-inc.org/), we can fix stock options now, across Europe, for good.
The issue isn't with the Presidency or Commission people but with the state members that may block it from going into law and push it to be a directive. I suspect Italy and Germany (sadly) and their notary lobbies are some of the ones more at risk to do that. Let's hope they don't
I absolutely share these sentiments that we are all Europeans and our companies could be just that as well not and not belong to nay specifi nation in Europe. 👍
What was the outcome? How far from making it a reality?
Andreas Klinger won’t stop until we have the EU-inc I‘m sure.
Hear! Hear!
Ah Iwona Anna Biernat and Francesco Sciortino so cool to see you together no doubt making an impact on the world 🚀
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Huge thanks Francesco Sciortino, as always, for the support and for sharing hard-earned lessons from building a company in Europe. And to you Ann Mettler for the honest, no-nonsense conversation and for sharing your experience inside EU institutions. Hope our paths cross again. The fight isn’t over. It won’t be easy. But it’s worth it.