Investment Plan for Europe

The Juncker Commission’s top priority for the period 2014-2019 is to get Europe growing again and to increase the number of jobs without creating new debt. Investment has been missing from Europe's economics in recent years. Alongside making structural reforms and pursuing responsible management of finances, Europe also needs to restore investment levels – to overcome the crisis, kick-start jobs and growth and sustain them.

One part of this priority is the Investment Plan for Europe. The Investment Plan focuses on removing obstacles to investment, providing visibility and technical assistance to investment projects and making smarter use of new and existing financial resources. To achieve these goals, the plan is active is three areas:

+ mobilising investments of at least €315 billion in three years
+ supporting investment in the real economy
+ creating an investment friendly environment.

• Primary Source

Committee of the Regions: Report of Event: An Investment Plan for Europe: joining forces, April 2015 http://cor.europa.eu/en/events/Pages/investmentconference.aspx

European Investment Bank: Investment Plan for Europe http://www.eib.org/infocentre/publications/all/investment-plan-for-europe.htm

European Investment Bank: European Investment Advisory Hub http://www.eib.org/eiah/index.htm

Wikipedia: European Commission Investment Plan for Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission_Investment_Plan_for_Europe

EurActiv: Tag: Juncker investment plan http://www.euractiv.com/topics/juncker-investment-plan

EP: EPRS: What Think Tanks are Thinking: Juncker's investment plan http://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=EPRS_ATA(2015)550883

ESO: Find all further information in ESO on this topic http://www.europeansources.info/advSearchLink?keyword=investment%20plan%20for%20europe%20&searchOption=all

Find think tank papers on this subject through the Think Tank Review of the Library of the Council of the European Union http://ec.europa.eu/eclas/F/?func=find-a&local_base=TTR&find_code=WSN&request=%22eu+investment%22

European Investment Bank: European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) http://www.eib.org/efsi/index.htm

ESO: Background information: Investment Plan for Europe: evaluations give evidence to support its reinforcement http://www.europeansources.info/record/investment-plan-for-europe-evaluations-give-evidence-to-support-its-reinforcement/

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