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The 28th regime and its end-2026 date

Parliament, the Council and the Commission signed one date for the 28th regime: agreement by the end of 2026. What the record shows at the end of September: the Legal Affairs Committee's 28 September sitting, a guidance note for the member states' ambassadors on 30 September, and a first Presidency compromise text, now public, that deletes the insolvency chapter and the central register.

Whatever the size of the single market’s internal tariff, the 28th regime is not built to remove it

conomists disagree on the size of the single market’s internal tariff. Whichever figure you take, the 28th regime is not built to remove it, and the Commission’s own ten-year numbers price it in paperwork savings, not trade.

Amendments in committee, and trilogue in November

The Legal Affairs Committee took up 1,418 amendments to the 28th regime on 7 September 2026, and the Irish Presidency told the same committee it wants trilogue negotiations by November. What the amendments ask for on the legal basis, employee participation, insolvency and stock options, and what a November trilogue would need first.

Inside the Council's 618-page redline of the 28th regime

Twenty-one of twenty-seven member states filed 1,815 drafting interventions on the 28th regime in a single 618-page Council table, WK 9143/2026 INIT of 26 June 2026. One article of 109 drew nothing at all. A full read, with what each finding means.

Employee stock options and the EU-ESO, read for founders

Options are the thing Europe gets most wrong. What the 28th regime's EU-ESO (Articles 78 and 79) would change, what it would not, and why it is a timing fix rather than a tax cut. Read against the Council's member-state drafting suggestions and the 43 amendments Parliament has tabled on the chapter.

The 28th regime, rewritten: inside the European Parliament's draft report

The European Parliament's draft report on the 28th regime (rapporteur René Repasi, PE790.143v01-00, 29 June 2026) runs 151 pages and 246 amendments. Inside: Article 4 deleted, a labour-law firewall, a numeric startup test, a listing ban, steward ownership, and a new employee ownership plan.