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European start-ups watch EU battle over who will shape their future

By Luca Bertuzzi ( July 16, 2025, 11:51 GMT | Insight) -- The European Commission’s plan to launch a new Start-up and Scale-up Scoreboard has triggered tensions with EU member states, who see it as an attempt to sideline the existing initiative, which was founded by 26 countries and already receives EU funding. While the commission argues the new scoreboard serves a different purpose, critics view it as a duplicative effort that adds confusion over who guides EU start-up policy.The European Commission has pledged to make the EU a start-up powerhouse, but the question of who should be in charge of supporting innovative actors and measuring their success is sparking a power struggle with the bloc’s member states....

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