Accelerating Europe Survey 2025

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Accelerating Europe survey.

The European Commission is preparing some reforms to make Europe more competitive, including simplification, reducing Bureaucracy.

With this survey, our goal is to make sure the right priorities are addressed with the European Instutions and that your voice is heard.

Investors and Entrepreneurs, in most of European countries, experience an investment process in Europe that involves more steps and time than in the US (Delaware, etc) and UK.

This survey focuses on comparing with the US where many tech companies have their headquarters. We understand you may find it limitating but this is the focus of the survey to keep it short and on topic

Your specific opinion will not be shared unless you explictly ask us to do so or authorize us to do so.

Instead we will focus on sharing aggregated data.

For any questions about this survey or if you want to suggest how to get more people at this survey, please email at survey@eu-acc.com

Thank you.
Benoit Vandevivere

Accelerating Europe Survey

PS: We collaborate with several event makers, associations and media to get answers from stakeholders in the EU startup world. At anytime we may stop collecting more answers.
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Your Company / Venture firm namePlease share the name of the firm or company where you work
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You are* This field is required.Please tell us you main current activity in the ecosystem.
An Investor (Venture Capital, Fund, etc)
A Startup Founder
A Startup Executive
Other
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Should company filings in Europe be processed faster, like within 1 to 72 hours (as in the US) instead of up to 15 business days?* This field is required.Many EU countries have a slower registry flow that can take up to 15 business days or more for company registry filings, including capital increase/investments, director nomination, address changes to be registered with company registries. .
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Should company, Investment agreements, Capital increase, Share transfers, and any company paperwork - be signable 100% Online, anytime (24hours / 7days , eIdas) - like in the US or UK ?* This field is required.The US and UK allow fully online signatures, making transactions faster and more efficient. Online as Docusign, Signnow or other online signature tools that allow each signatory to sign at the time of its convenience, 100% online.
YESNO
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Should notarial procedures in European company law be optional to allow fully online processes, notary-free?* This field is required.Some EU countries require notaries that can delay transactions and add costs. Making them optional could speed up company-related filings.
YESNO
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Should fees for company signature processes, registrations and filings in Europe be as low as those in US Delaware or the UK?* This field is required.In UK or Delaware, the registry fees and signature costs (where notaries and their fees are mandatory in some EU countries) are generally cheaper than most EU countries.
YESNO
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Overall, should Europe match US Delaware’s speed and costs for company corporate filings - including capital increase - to prevent headquarters exodus (relocation) to the US?* This field is required.This question wants to get your opinion on how speed and costs contribute of (or not) exodus of European headquarters to the US
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Should non-resident investors be exempt from obtaining a local tax ID if they owe no local taxes?* This field is required.Some countries like Spain (NIF), Italy (Codice), Germany (Steuer ID), require each investor - even non-resident investors who are non-taxable at the time of the investment - to go through some paperwork to get a tax id and this process can take weeks for each investor participating in the investment round.
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Have you seen European bureaucracy slow, cancel, or relocate investments intended for Europe?* This field is required.Bureaucracy as notary requirements, slow registries, tax id requirements- the topics we indicated in the previous questions.
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Have you seen European companies move to the US due to European administrative hurdles?* This field is required.e.g. Notary requirements, slow registries, tax id requirements etc
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Any additional comments? (optional)Please share your thoughts you'd like the European Commission to hear on how to make investing in Europe faster and easier, and being competitive with US and leading headquarters destinations. Please specify if we can quote you directly, including in public or you prefer to stay anonymous on that quote (just write "keep me anonymous" or "Feel free to quote me publicly" "Feel free to quote me for internal purpose of the Commission or European Parliament" )
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Your name* This field is required.Please note we will not share your individual vote, just list you as a participant
First Name
Last Name
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Email* This field is required.To prove the accuracy of the data we collect, we need to make sure the emails are verified - please use your company / investment firm email address. Thank you!
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Do you want us to share or not your full name with EU institutions and your email if they want some follow up questions, if they ask? (OPTIONAL)It is possible that some followup question might be asked, done by us or the EU Institutions and that they may want to know some of the participants position. If you feel comfortable sharing this, let us know. It is optional.
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