A planned EU-wide company entity to help European startups grow across the single market will be “one single and simple set of rules”, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in Turin on Friday. Social Democrat René Repasi, the lead MEP on the project, has proposed a softer approach of harmonising national company rules as much as possible. He’s concerned that all-new, unified EU rules for companies would prove divisive in Council – yet EU countries would need to give their unanimous backing in order for it to pass. Divisions could also lead to huge delays on establishing a 28th regime, Repasi believes, as happened with other similar reforms. MEPs are set to debate their amendments to Parliament’s report on an EU-wide company entity in the legal committee on 13 October.