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By Paul Grant, Senior Associate, Signature Litigation On 14 July 2026, the United Kingdom and the European Union signed the Treaty on Gibraltar. Provisional application began the following day. In practical terms, the Treaty removes the physical barriers, and routine immigration checks that have defined the Gibraltar-Spain land border, replacing them with a regime for […] The post Gibraltar’s Open Border: What the New UK-EU Treaty Means appeared first on European Business Magazine.

By Tim Schumacher, Co-Founder of saas.group AI is reshaping the economics of building a software company. Coding tools are allowing companies to develop products faster, with smaller teams and considerably less capital. Tasks that once absorbed weeks of engineering time can increasingly be completed in hours, while a small team can now build and maintain […] The post Vibe coding is changing how software companies are built. Now it will change how they are bought appeared first on European Business Magazine.

Zürich, London and New York, 16 September 2026 ETFBOOK (SquaredData AG) has raised $13M in a funding round led by Expedition Growth Capital, with participation from existing investor BlackFin Capital Partners. This round funds the next phase of growth: expanding the default intelligence layer for the global ETF market and scaling it from EMEA […] The post ETFBOOK Takes ETF Data Platform Global With Expansion Into AMER and APAC appeared first on European Business Magazine.

With Europe unveiling an ambitious energy roadmap at the end of last year, infrastructure projects are taking centre stage. For more than a decade, one idea has been particularly compelling: connecting Cyprus to continental Europe’s electricity network through one of the world’s most ambitious subsea power cables, ending the energy isolation of the European Union’s last non-interconnected member state. But turning that […] The post Great Sea Interconnector: The Project Attempting to Transform the Energy Landscape of the Eastern Mediterranean appeared first on European Business Magazine.

Leiden, 14 September 2026 — EBM Weekend Read — Anthony Gill Ingka Group, the company that runs most IKEA stores on earth, reported €41.5bn in revenue for the financial year ending August 2025. It has no shareholders. It cannot be bought, sold, or taken over, because there is no stock to acquire and no owner […] The post IKEA Is Owned by a Foundation That Owns Itself — and That Was the Whole Point appeared first on European Business Magazine.