Publications
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Invest Europe supports a proportionate sustainability reporting framework for global operations and value chains that combines meaningful transparency with practical requirements. Our response highlights the importance of reflecting how global businesses operate and the specificities of private markets, so that reporting provides useful information without imposing unnecessary burdens.

This webinar, jointly organised by Invest Europe, France Invest and UK Private Capital, marked the launch of the 2026 editions of the Invest Europe and France Invest ESG Reporting Templates and the newly released UK VC GP/LP ESG Reporting template.

This targeted position paper sets out Invest Europe’s priorities for the SFDR 2.0 trilogues, focusing on the need to preserve the significant improvements secured in the compromise texts to date and to further adapt the product categorisation framework to the specificities of the PE/VC industry.

Ahead of the upcoming European Council, Invest Europe wrote to European Council President António Costa urging Member States to reverse the proposed reduction in the resources allocated to the ECF-InvestEU Instrument - a part of the EU future budget crucial to support venture capital - from €11 billion to €9.6 billion. Drawing on the strong track record of InvestEU and the European Investment Fund in mobilising private capital, we stressed that Europe should be reinforcing, not weakening, one of its most effective tools for boosting EU competitiveness.

In a position paper and in a joint paper by the European Banking Federation (EBF), we argue that Europe cannot close its investment and competitiveness gaps without mobilising all available sources of capital, including banks. It highlights how the current prudential framework discourages banks from investing in diversified venture capital, growth capital and private equity funds, despite their lower risk profile compared with direct company investments. The two papers call for a targeted revision of the CRR, including a more risk-sensitive treatment of diversified long-term equity funds, in order to unlock additional financing for innovation, technology, defence and industrial transformation while maintaining prudential soundness.

A plea for thoughtful action in the face of the climate tsunami.

This update is designed to give members greater visibility on both the policy developments affecting private capital and the work we do to influence them. The publication reviews 26 key EU legislative and policy initiatives spanning fundraising, taxation, sustainability, innovation, strategic sectors and capital markets, helping members understand the opportunities and challenges ahead for the industry.

As the European Commission reviews the definition of Undertakings in Difficulty (UID) under its State aid framework, including the General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER) as well as its Rescue and Restructuring Guidelines, the draft rules continue to misclassify healthy, investor-backed companies as financially distressed, delaying and restricting access to public support for innovative businesses in sectors critical to Europe's competitiveness. Invest Europe is advocating for a targeted reform that will avoid false positives, supporting companies at precisely the moment they need support to scale.