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3️⃣ Attracting foreign investment

📌 Make Europe a magnet for global #capital while ensuring proper safeguards.

📌 Prevent unnecessary barriers under EU #FDI screening rules.

2️⃣ Boosting sophisticated & #retail investment

📌 Introduce a clear EU investor categorisation to unlock private capital flows.

📌 Ensure retail investors can access long-term funds via #pension & #insurance products.

1️⃣ Unlocking institutional #investment

📌 Remove regulatory & prudential hurdles for insurers, #pension funds & #banks.

📌 #SolvencyII, #CRR & #IORP rules need adjustments to channel more capital into long-term funds.

3️⃣ Attracting foreign investment

📌 Make Europe a magnet for global #capital while ensuring proper safeguards.

📌 Prevent unnecessary barriers under EU #FDI screening rules.

2️⃣ Boosting sophisticated & #retail investment

📌 Introduce a clear EU investor categorisation to unlock private capital flows.

📌 Ensure retail investors can access long-term funds via #pension & #insurance products.

1️⃣ Unlocking institutional #investment

📌 Remove regulatory & prudential hurdles for insurers, #pension funds & #banks.

📌 #SolvencyII, #CRR & #IORP rules need adjustments to channel more capital into long-term funds.

3️⃣ Attracting foreign investment

📌 Make Europe a magnet for global #capital while ensuring proper safeguards.

📌 Prevent unnecessary barriers under EU #FDI screening rules.

2️⃣ Boosting sophisticated & #retail investment

📌 Introduce a clear EU investor categorisation to unlock private capital flows.

📌 Ensure retail investors can access long-term funds via #pension & #insurance products.

1️⃣ Unlocking institutional #investment

📌 Remove regulatory & prudential hurdles for insurers, #pension funds & #banks.

📌 #SolvencyII, #CRR & #IORP rules need adjustments to channel more capital into long-term funds.

4️⃣ Policy must match ambition
The #Draghi report called for bold reforms—yet key priorities have already disappeared from the Compass. The EU must think bigger if it truly wants to compete globally.

3️⃣ Fixing the #SME definition
Many #startups lose their SME status when backed by venture capital, limiting access to support. The EU must redefine control so start-ups can benefit from investment without being penalized.

2️⃣ Unlocking institutional capital
The real game-changer? Opening up large institutional investors (including foreign ones) to invest in long-term equity funds. This means fixing #Solvency II, #CRR, & #IORP rules—not just indirect measures.

1️⃣ #Equity, not just debt
The Compass rightly highlights that Europe struggles to finance #startups & #scaleups. But its solutions—#securitisation reform & #retail savings products—won’t fill the equity gap.

- Expanding access to long-term equity investment through pension products
- Ensuring European Investment Fund #EIF continues its vital role in early-stage financing
- Aligning #FDI rules to attract non-EU capital while safeguarding strategic assets

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- Amendments to #CRR and #SolvencyII to enable banks, insurers, and pension funds to invest more in long-term equity
- Revising #MiFID rules to better reflect the expertise of sophisticated investors and introducing EU-wide tax incentives for VC investments

However, Europe’s venture capital market lags behind global peers like the US due to structural challenges, regulatory barriers, and limited fundraising opportunities.

To support innovation and close this gap, in our "Forward" publication we recommend focusing on 12 priorities, including:

The CMU is essential to bridging funding gaps for start-ups and scale-ups, especially in the climate, digital, and defence sectors.

A competitive private equity and venture capital market will drive sustainability, technological independence, and economic resilience.