Overview
Rel-I was founded in 2025 in Brussels with the ambition of delivering Reliable Intelligence to support better policymaking across the European Union. The company's name reflects its vision: to bring forward data-driven, AI-enhanced, yet human-centred insights that public institutions can trust.
In the news
- If you are in Lille this Friday for the European Evaluation Society (EES) conference, you don't want to miss this session on AI in Impact Assessments! Daniel Nigohosyan is already around, so in case you want to influence his last preparations for his presentation or get some early insights on our tools to enhance quality and speed of EU Impact Assessments, you might want to go grab an Anosteké, a Bière de Garde, or a Vieux Lille Blonde Triple with him. Daniel Nigohosyan you may thank your Rel-I team for organising you a pleasant
- Roberta Metsola, Alessandro Chiocchetti and Christian Ehler in one room, discussing how AI can support lawmaking. On Wednesday 4 November (10:00–12:00 CET), the European Parliament’s STOA Panel hosts the workshop “AI for legislative work”. The President of the European Parliament, its Secretary General and the Chair of the STOA Panel will all speak. The starting point is that AI should never replace democratic decision-making. But can it help make laws clearer, better targeted and easier to implement? Use cases from the Italian
- More impact assessments, not fewer and they need better evidence, faster. Yesterday, we attended the Regulatory Scrutiny Board’s 8th Annual Conference in Brussels. The message was clear: evidence-based policymaking remains a core political objective of the Commission, and the pressure on it is growing as decisions are expected to be faster despite increased scrutiny on evidence. A few points to remember: 1. The pace is accelerating: By October 2026, the RSB had already scrutinised 51 impact assessments, almost twice as many as in all
- Europe’s rail freight paradox: everybody wants more of it, climate targets ask for it, military mobility depends on it, EU policy calls for +50% by 2030, and yet rail’s share of inland freight has fallen for a decade, in 20 of the 25 Member States with a rail network. Our study for CER | Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies, with Ecorys and Professor Oliviero Baccelli, set out to resolve that paradox with concreteness: not another call for ambition, but an evidence-based diagnosis of what the obstacles actually
- The Economic Study on the European Rail Freight Sector establishes an evidence-based diagnosis of the challenges affecting rail freight, assess the economic weight of the obstacles it faces, and identify concrete, prioritised measures to restore its competitiveness. The study was commissioned by CER and was carried out through September 2026 by Rel-I, a Brussels-based economic research and public policy consultancy, Ecorys, and Prof. Oliviero Baccelli. Read the full findings and recommendations on the CER website📝 #EUTransport
- Want to learn about digitalisation of energy systems? Check out the recent publication we have contributed to.
- How can Europe accelerate the development, deployment and market uptake of clean energy technologies? ⚡ Technological innovation alone is not enough. Europe also needs the right skills, data infrastructure, societal involvement, financing conditions and regulatory environment to translate innovation into practical impact. Ecorys, together with WIP Renewable Energies, has supported the implementation of the revised EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan (#SET Plan). Working closely with SET Plan stakeholders, five dedicated Task Forces
- You're in. Welcome to Claude Startups. A short e-mail received this morning, which we had to read three times, partly out of joy and partly to make sure it wasn't phishing. Rel-I has been accepted into Anthropic's #Claude Startups programme. 🎉 We started Rel-I in 2025 with one conviction: EU policy-making deserves reliable evidence, rigorous methods, and a responsible use of AI. We have therefore continued to provide consulting services to the European Commission, European Parliament, and other public and private stakeholders, while
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