A former Italian prime minister. Together with Mario Draghi, another former Italian prime minister, he authored reports proposing a "28th regime" for the European Union—a single set of EU-wide regulations that firms could opt into if their national system held them back, designed to make the EU's second-largest-in-the-world market more accessible to startups and innovative companies. Under the 28th regime, a business could register once then operate freely across the bloc—much as Delaware incorporation allows in America. Nick Clegg has argued that Britain should join the scheme. (20260328, 20260411)
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