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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10649

6 July 2012
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) infrastructure
Parliament, reassured, backs project bonds

Strasbourg, 05/07/2012 (Agence Europe) - MEPs gave their overwhelming support in plenary session in Strasbourg on Thursday 5 July to the launch of the pilot phase of debentures, more commonly known as “project bonds”. €230 million will be made available to fund infrastructure projects in the EU. This sum could, however, leverage up to €4 billion from private investment. The European Parliament (EP), then, has approved the compromise reached in inter-institutional negotiations which...

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