London and the Île-de-France region, home of the French capital, Paris, stood out as the best-in-class in the ninth iteration of fDi Intelligence’s European Cities and Regions of the Future ranking.
Cities results
London has maintained its crown in fDi’s European City of the Future title in the major cities category. Seemingly indifferent to the political turbulence that Brexit has triggered since 2016, the UK capital continues to attract more FDI projects than any other city across Europe as it leverages its strength as a truly global metropolis and its unique combination of talent, infrastructure and capital. Two big Brexit winners chase on London’s heels in the major cities category: Amsterdam and Dublin. The former is home of Euronext, the pan-European stock exchange that has unseated the London Stock Exchange as the continent’s biggest trading venue, with the latter benefitting from the pot-Brexit influx of financial services companies.