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Hello, you're with Business Daily from the BBC World Service. I'm Matthew Kenyon. Today,

sitting down with a man who's immersed in the worlds of European tech and investment.

Constantine Funerania has worked as a business consultant and at the European Commission,

and now he marshals support for the Dutch tech sector through his organisation TechLeap,

set up to back the founders and start-ups, hoping to shape the future of Europe's economy.

It's a position which gives him a platform to have his

say on the most important issues facing the continent today. We need to be more competitive. The Draghi

report is now one year old, so we don't need to analyze further. We really now have to actually

get to execution. But Constantine Van Arranya juggles those interventions with another role as a senior member

of the Dutch royal family. He's a prince of the Netherlands. His brother is the Dutch king.

So how free does he feel to say what he thinks about the worlds of business and finance

where he spends his daily life.

In those areas, I don't mince my words. I do, of course, choose my words.

We talk politics, regulation, and unicorns on Business Daily Meats from the BBC World Service.

As a senior member of the Dutch royal family, Constantine Fannerania has a number of different titles.

He is, after all, the third son of former Queen Beatrix and the youngest brother of King Willem Alexander of the Netherlands.

But Business Daily wanted to sit down with him not because of that, but because of what he does at

TechLeep, the organisation which he co-founded to help the Dutch tech sector grow and which is

immersed in the start-up culture which buzzes around in places like Amsterdam and Einhoven and

Delft. That culture, Constantine says, has always been there in a country which needs technology

to survive.

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