Sustainability is under pressure worldwide. Political unrest, economic uncertainty, and social division are causing organisations to hesitate: push forward or scale back?

On September 23rd, the European Commission proposed to delay the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) by another year due to technical issues with the IT system (TRACES) that supports the regulation's compliance processes. In this article we will explain what this delay means for companies and what you can do.

In the next edition of Grant Thornton’s series on trending international insights, we examine how disruption can offer the mid-market an opportunity to grow and differentiate themselves from their competitors.

On 9 October 2025, the ECJ delivered its decision in Finanzamt Hamburg-Altona v XYRALITY GmbH (C-101/24). The case concerns the VAT treatment of digital services provided through an app store and the applicability of Article 28 of the EU VAT Directive 2006/112/EC (VD) (a so-called ‘commissionaire fiction’) to the supply of in-app purchases.