Harry Thompson

Luxembourg has fewer than 700,000 residents, but its company register holds an outsized share of the entities that matter most

Ireland is the multinational holding hub of Europe, and its company register reflects it: a common-law, English-language jurisdiction where thousands

Sweden is the cleanest open-data story in this series so far. Where Ireland charges per document and Czechia runs a

Denmark runs what is widely regarded as one of the most open business registers in the world. Where Sweden is

Czechia has one of the better-built public company registers in Central Europe: financial statements are filed into the Collection of

Romania does something almost no other European country does: it publishes company financial statements through the tax authority, not the

In 2015, Ukraine became the first country in the world to make company beneficial-ownership data public. It went on to

Hungary publishes the full annual accounts of every double-entry-bookkeeping company — balance sheet, profit and loss, and notes — free,

Poland runs one of the most digitised company financial-data systems in Europe — and almost nobody outside the country knows

Belgium has the most accessible, machine-readable, and comprehensive private-company financial disclosure regime in continental Europe. Roughly 566,000 sets of annual