For the recovery of investment in Europe

Investment trends in Europe are worrying. The causes of this are multiple, but mainly seem to lie in economic uncertainty and States' or local authorities' ability to commit, both on a financial and political level, to projects that are based on increasingly complicated financial schemes. In this context, the recovery of investment should first imply the improvement of existing national and European public measures in support of SMEs, innovation and infrastructures. It is on this basis that a greater coordination of public financial actors sharing harmonised financial goals and instruments might be given support to enable an improved catalysis of private investment to reach the goals set by the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Juncker raises high expectations with ambitious agenda http://www.europeansources.info/record/juncker-raises-high-expectations-with-ambitious-agenda/

ESO: Background information: Investment in and the financing of the European Economy http://www.europeansources.info/record/investment-in-and-the-financing-of-the-european-economy/

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