Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: Fixing the European plumbing

Political consensus may be rare at the moment, but there is one thing that most European politicians can agree on: Europe needs to reform its regulations to focus on investment and growth – and find ways to cajole its regulators to do the same.  Indeed, this week the UK issued an Action Plan, which included a series of pledges from regulators.

Of course, there are disagreements about the scope and scale of reform, but the direction of travel is pretty clear.  Changes to environmental and planning regulation in the UK, and deregulation of sustainability disclosure rules in the EU, are just a few topical examples.