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Channels — top-level editorial sections
Top-level editorial sections that organise the site. Hubs sit underneath, tags cut across. Curated — not algorithmic — what we think matters.
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European Innovation Council
The European Innovation Council is the EU body backing high-risk, high-reward startups with grants and equity through the EIC Accelerator and Fund.
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EU supervisors set a joint line on frontier AI risk
Europe's three financial supervisors want frontier AI models treated as an operational resilience problem, not a technology question. Their statement asks for no new rules.
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Authors — who writes on jinafin
Contributors who write for jinafin — named editors, editorial teams, occasional guest voices. Each author page links to everything they have published here.
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European External Action Service
The European External Action Service is the EU diplomatic service. It shapes the partnerships behind the money the Union sends beyond its borders.
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European Investment Bank
The European Investment Bank is the EU lending arm and one of the largest public lenders in the world, a quiet engine behind European infrastructure.
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Hubs — curated theme groupings
Curated theme groupings that collect related articles, profiles, and reference material in one place.
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Global Social Venture Competition
The Global Social Venture Competition, or GSVC, was a business plan contest that funded early-stage social ventures and judged them on measured impact.
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European Investment Fund
The European Investment Fund rarely funds startups directly. It backs the venture funds and banks that do, which quietly shapes who in Europe gets money.
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The European Innovation Council, decoded: grants and equity
The EIC hands single companies a grant and an equity cheque in one programme. Here is how the Accelerator, Pathfinder and Transition actually work.
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The EU Mission for climate-neutral and smart cities
The EU Cities Mission aims to make 100 cities climate-neutral by 2030. It is part funding programme, part political signal, and a magnet for capital.
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EU neighbourhood funding, decoded: how the money flows out
The EU sends billions to the countries on its borders. Here is how neighbourhood and partnership money actually moves, and who decides where it goes.
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Who pays for smart cities? Horizon Europe, the EIB and more
Smart-city money comes from a stack: EU grants, public-bank loans and private capital. Here is who pays for what, and where the real money sits.
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Cross-border cooperation: how EU regions fund neighbours
Cross-border cooperation programmes let EU regions and their neighbours fund shared projects. It is local, slow and one of the EU more human instruments.
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Startup Europe Club: the EU startup network portal
Startup Europe Club was an online platform that connected European founders with investors, hubs and the EU programs built to help them grow.
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Financing Europe smart cities: inside the 100-cities mission
The EU wants 100 climate-neutral cities by 2030. The hard part is paying for it. Here is how smart-city money is built from grants, loans and private capital.
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European Commission
The European Commission is the EU executive that proposes laws, runs the budget and steers most of the money behind European innovation and funding.
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From ENPI to NDICI: the EU external funding, explained
The EU keeps renaming its external funding. ENPI became ENI, then folded into NDICI Global Europe. Here is what actually changed, and what did not.
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Cyprus savers still wait while euro area deposit rates climb
Euro area borrowing costs rose again in June and deposit rates followed. Cypriot savers got far less, and the central bank points to a liquidity ratio near triple the minimum.
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Horizon Europe for founders: what the budget really pays for
Horizon Europe is the EU research budget of around 93.5 billion euro. Most is not for startups, but the parts that are can be transformative.