‘Accelerating Europe – It’s Now Or Never'

At last week’s Tech.eu Summit in London, this one panel with insights from Adine Tjeenk Willink, Benoit Vandevivere, Cristobal Alonso, Monty Munford, and Patrick Newton especially caught our attention.Here are three insights that stuck with us:

🔁 Copy with pride - Across the EU, good solutions already exist. Instead of reinventing the wheel 27 times, let’s scale what works and start treating best practices like shared infrastructure.

💸 Investment of savings capital - In the US, around 85–90% of household capital is actively invested in capital markets, with less than 15% held in bank deposits. In Europe, the picture flips: over 40% of private wealth sits in low-yield savings accounts, and only 15–20% flows into market-based investments. There’s huge untapped potential, but it needs better incentives and frameworks.

🌍 Capital markets union - Europe is a single market for goods and services, but when it comes to capital, it still operates like 27 fragmented systems. A functioning capital markets union isn’t a nice-to-have, it’s essential to unlocking growth, scale, and innovation across the continent.

👉 In short: Europe has the tools, now it’s about the will to use them.