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Inter-institutional agreement on rules to stimulate venture capital and social entrepreneurship investments

Brussels, 31/05/2017 (Agence Europe)

As announced in a previous article (see EUROPE 11798), the Council of the EU and the European Parliament on Tuesday 30 May reached a political agreement on the legislative proposal governing the activities of the venture capital (EuVECA) and social entrepreneurship (EuSEF) funds.

Readers may recall that the Commission presented this proposal in July 2016 in the framework of its Capital Markets Union project (see EUROPE 11594). The aim of these reforms is to improve access to funding for SMEs...