Europe
Europe is our birthplace with over 35 member organisations and close ties to policy makers in Brussels and across the continent. With the Digital Single Market and many EU policies with global impact we deeply believe in the transformative power of startups for the old continent.
March 2019: The Cluj Recommendations – Startup Policy Ideas for the next 5 Years
Tag: Digital Single Market
April 2019: Escaping the Startup Trap: Can Policymakers Help Small Companies Grow to Major Employers?
In colaboration with the Progressive Policy Institute
December 2018: The Impact of Regulation on the Tech Sector – Informing a regulatory environment which leads to a stronger tech ecosystem in Europe
Tags: DigiTax, European Startups
October 2018: Europe❤Startups: Pleddge for launching an Intergroup on Startups and Scaleups
Tags: European Parliament, Digital Single Market
June 2018: The Impact of a Content Filtering MAndate on Online Service Providers
Tag: Copyright, Digital Single Market, European Startups
September 2016: ScaleUp Europe – A Manifesto for Change and Empowerment in the Digital Age
In coopertation with the Lisbon Council, Nesta and Open Evidence
Tag: Digital Single Market, European Startups
May 2016: European startups set policy priorities for global growth
Tag: Digital Single Market, European Startups
Open Letters & Consultations:
July 2019: Open Letter To Commission President-Elect Von Der Leyen
Tag: European Startups
March 2019: SME Exemption: Entrepreneurs In Europe Want To Thrive!
Tag: Copyright, Digital Single Market
February 2019: Open Letter: Why Exemptions Do Not Work For Startups
Tag: Copyright, Digital Single Market, AI
January 2019: Open Letter To The Trilogue Negotiators On A Mandatory TDM Exception
Tag: TDM, Copyright, Digital Single Market
January 2019: Letter: An SME exemption is not a startup exemption
Tag: TDM, Copyright, Digital Single Market
January 2019: Open Letter on Copyright Trilogue Negotiators on a TDM exception
Tag: TDM, Copyright, Digital Single Market
January 2019: Response to Consultation: Draft Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI
Tag: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Single Market
January 2019: P2B Letter to Deputy Ambassadors
Tag: P2B, Platforms, Digital Single Market
January 2019: Open Letter to MEPs on a delayed Copyright Trilogue
Tag: TDM, Copyright, Digital Single Market
December 2018: P2B Reality Check
Tag: P2B, Platforms, Digital Single Market
December 2018: P2B Letter to IMCO members
Tag: P2B, Platforms, Digital Single Market
November 2018: Not Optional (co-signed letter)
Tag: European Startups, Digital Single Market
November 2018: Open Letter: Draft Proposal on Platform to Business Relations
Tag: P2B, Platforms, Digital Single Market
November 2018: P2B Startups Infographic
Tag: P2B, Platforms, Digital Single Market
November 2018: Copyright Letter to Portuguese Culture Minister
Tag: TDM, Copyright, Digital Single Market
November 2018: Copyright Letter to MEPs
Tag: Copyright, Digital Single Market
October 2018: Copyright Letter to Negotiating Parties on the Copyright Directive
Tag: Copyright, Digital Single Market
June 2018: Consultation Response on Hate Speech
Tag: Platforms, Digital Single Market
May 2018: TDM Open Letter to Chancellor Merkel
Tag: Copyright, Digital Single Market
April 2018: Open letter to the EU Commission on AI and TDM
Tag: Copyright, Digital Single Market
March 2018: Open Letter to Ministers and Ambassadors on Copyright
Tag: Copyright
Vice President Ansip’s response to our letter
Tag: European Startups, Digital Single Market
Open letter to Co-legislators on the General Data Protection Regulation
Tag: Privacy, GDPR, Digital Single Market
December 2017: Joint Industry Statement on Free Flow of Data
Tag: Data flows
December 2017: Consultation Response: Public Sector Information
Tag: Access to Data
November 2017: Open Letter to Competition Council on Copyright
Tag: Copyright
Tag: Data Flows, Digital Single Market
November 2017: Letter to Commissioner Gabriel on Platform-to-Business Relations
Tag: Online Platforms
Articles
June 2018: The Impact of Content Filtering Mandate on Online Service Providers
Tag: Copyright
January 2018: Accelerating Growth of EU Startups in Business Services and Construction (also on Medium)
Tag: Startup Visa
March 2018 : Free Flow of Data: Ferrari Superfast for Startups
Tag: Data Flows
January 2018: GDPR for Startups in Practice – Automated Decision-Making and Privacy by Design (also on Medium)
Tag: Privacy, GDPR, Digital Single Market
January 2018: Case in Point: PSI Hearing shows that Startups belong at the policy table (also on Medium)
Tag: Access to Data, Digital Single Market
January 2018 : Artificial Intelligence: Why regulators Need to Understand Startups First (also on Medium)
Tag: Copyright, Artificial Intelligence
May 2018: Europe’s Next Creative Renaissance? (also on Medium)
Tag: Copyright, Digital Single Market
November 2017: 10 European Apps Helping Us Travel Smarter
Tag: Online Platforms, European Startups, App economy
June 2017: From Zero to Hero or Europe’s Mighty App Economy: Part I Utility Apps (also on Medium)
Tag: Online platforms, European startups, App Economy
June 2017 : Announcing: From Zero to Hero or Europe’s Mighty App Economy (also on Medium)
Tag: European Startups, App economy, Online Platforms
November 2017: 7 European Fitness and Wellness Apps Helping people Live Healthier (also on Medium)
Tag: Online Platforms, European Startups, App econom
November 2017: Don’t Torpedo Startups – Brochure on the Effects of Draft Copyright Regulations on Startups
Tag: Copyright
May 2017: Let’s judge the DSM by its results, not ambitions
Tag: Copyright, Data Flows, Digital Single Market
December 2016 : Preempting Problems is easier than Repairing them: The Case for Free Flow of Data
Tag: Data Flows, Digital Single Market
December 2016: Getting VAT right this time: Startups’ ask to the European Commission
Tag: Digital Single Market
August 2016: Brain gain: Six ways the EU startup visa will bring success to Europe
Tag: Startup Visa, Digital Single Market
July 2016: Your summer reading list about startups and technology
Tag: European Startups
Tag: European Startups, Digital Single Market
May 2016 : Digital Single Market in the European Parliament – in good hands?
Tag: Online Platforms, Digital Single Market
May 2016: European startups set policy priorities for global growth
Tag: Digital Single Market, European Startups
Europe Should Praise its Startups
Tag: Digital Single Market, European Startups
Tag: Digital Single Market, European Startups
The post-2018 data protection landscape for startups in the EU
Tag: Digital Single Market, Data Flows
The post-2018 data protection landscape II
Tag: Privacy, Digital Single Market
Not Neutrality: An end to meaningful net neutrality in Europe?
Tag: Net neutrality, Digital Single Market
How a Startup Visa can make the EU (and EU politics) more attractive
Tag: Startup Visa, Digital Single Market, European Startups
Here we go: Europe’s thriving app economy
Tag; European Startups, App Economy
February 2018: Two things that Could Make of Break the European Data Economy
Tag: Data Flows, Digital Single Market
February 2018: The Entrepreneurial Parliament?
Tag: Digital Single Market, European Startups
February 2017: EU Copyright Reform is Coming: Is your Startup Ready?
Tag: Copyright, European Startups
December 2017: Regulating Platforms, again?!
Tag: Online Platforms
December 2017 : Filtering Obligations: Don’t torpedo Startups in Europe
Tag: Copyright
September 2017: Two-hour content removal sends startups (and all of us) down a dangerous route.
Tag: Copyright, Online Platforms, Digital Single Market
January 2017 : Remember? #Startups urging European Commission to put digital first
Tag: Digital Single Market, European Startups
January 2017: The EU Copyright Reform could shut down your company — #Copyright4Startups
Tag: Copyright
July 2019:
Featured in etno.eu: #Dialogue4Tech: Europeans are users, consumers, entrepreneurs… citizens!
Tag: European Startups
July 2019:
Featured in Agenda Digitale: Gdpr e cyber security, le startup italiane dormono: ecco tutte le opportunità perse (in Italian)
Tag: GDPR, European Startups
June 2019:
Featured in La Libre: BeCentral, l’écosystème “tech” au centre de Bruxelles
Tag: European Startups
June 2019:
Featured in European Commission Webpage: Key Takeaways and Policy Recommendations from Startup Europe Summit 2019
Tag: European Startups
March 2019:
Featured in the Irish Independent: Startups losing out to ‘big tech’, warn investors
Tag: Copyright
March 2019:
Featured in E&T: How Article 13 could threaten smaller content providers and start-ups
Tag: Copyright
March 2019:
Featured in POLITICO Morning Tech: Startups ask for Policy
Tag: European Startups
March 2019:
Featured in Dagens Samshälle: Rädda vårt internet! (in Swedish)
Tag: Copyright
March 2019:
Featured in Project Disco: EU Copyright Directive: The Final Countdown
Tag: Copyright
March 2019:
Featured in telecompaper: ICT groups call for changes to EU regulation on terrorist content takedown
Tag: Platforms
March 2019:
Featured in telecompaper: ICT groups call for changes to EU regulation on terrorist content takedown
Tag: Copyright
March 2019:
Featured in futurzone: Internet-Anbieter gegen Entwurf für EU-Urheberrechtsrichtlinie (in German)
Tag: Copyright
March 2019:
Featured in Vista Annonces: Les responsables techniques critiquent le plan fiscal français (in French)
Tag: DigiTax
March 2019:
Featured in Il Sole 24 Ore: Web tax, la Francia sfida i colossi: una partita da mezzo miliardo all’anno (in Italian)
Tag: DigiTax
March 2019:
Featured in Le Monde: Taxe GAFA : Bruno Le Maire répond aux entreprises du numérique (in French)
Tag: DigiTax
March 2019:
Featured in the Financial Times: Tech executives criticise France’s digital tax plan
Tag: DigiTax
March 2019:
Featured in LSA: Avec sa Taxe Gafa, la France part seule à l’assaut des géants du net (in French)
Tag: DigiTax
February 2019:
Featured in Europa Press: La segunda edición de Startup Europe Smart Agrifood Summit se promociona en Bruselas (in Spanish)
Tag: European Startups
January 2019:
Featured in El Mundo: Las startups europeas rechazan la tasa Google que el Gobierno aprobará hoy en el Consejo de Ministros (in Spanish)
Tag: DigiTax, European Startups
December 2018:
Featured in Forbes: Why An Attack on Big Tech Could Damage Small Start-ups
Tag: DigiTax, European Startups
May 2018:
POLITICO: The copyright reform bug that risks derailing Europe’s AI ambitions (Op-ed)
Tag: Copyright, AI, Digital Single Market, European Startups
July 2017:
Tech.eu: The European Parliament is Discussing an expiry date for Startups (Op-ed)
Tag: Digital Single Market, European Startups
July 2017:
The Next Web: EU’s draconian new copyright law puts an expiration date on startups (Op-ed)
Tag: Copyright, European Startups
September 2016:
EURACTIV: The EU just told data mining startups to take their business elsewhere (Op-ed)
Tag: Copyright, European Startups, Access to Data
The Digital Post: Europe’s Tech Startups: Death by regulatory Overkill? (Op-ed)
Tag: Digital Single Market, App Economy, Data Flows
April 2017:
EURACTIV: EU copyright directive means trouble for our startups (Op-ed)
Tag: Copyright, European Startups,
April 2019: Statement On The Plenary Vote On The Terrorist Content Online Regulation
Tag: Platforms
April 2019: Statement on the adoption of the P2B regulation’s interinstitutional agreement by the European Parliament
Tag: P2B, Platforms
March 2019: Statement On The IMCO Opinion Vote On The Terrorist Content Proposal
Tag: Platforms
February 2019: Statement On The Interinstitutional Agreement (IMCO Adoption) Of The P2B Regulation
Tag: P2B, Platforms
February 2019: Statement on the Conclusion of the Trilogues on the Copyright Directive
Tag: Copyright, Digital Single Market, AI
Tag: TDM, Copyright, Digital Single Market
November 2018: Statement after IMCO vote on P2B
Tag: P2B, Platforms, Digital Single Market
July 2018: Copyright Vote outcome
Tag; Copyright, Digital Single Market
June 2018: Copyright – JURI Vote Outcome
Tag; Copyright, Digital Single Market
May 2018: Informal Intergroup on Startups at the European Parliament
Tag: European Startups, Digital Single Market
April 2018: Press release on Draft Platform-to-Business Proposal
Tag: online platforms, Digital Single Market
April 2018: Turning point or Turnover for Startups?
Tag: Digital Single Market, European Startups
March 2018: On Venture EU Fund launch
Tag: Digital Single Market
Community Statements
June 2018: Statement on ePrivacy – by startup founders
Tag: Privacy, European Startups, Digital Single Market
April 2018: Polish Startups Community Statement on Proposed EU EPrivacy Regulation
Tag: Privacy, European Startups
October 2018:
YOUTUBE: How would an EU digital tax impact startups and small businesses?
Tag: DigiTax