During the evening of Wednesday 21 June, the representatives of the European Parliament and of the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the EU failed to reach an inter-institutional political agreement on doubling the firepower and duration of the 'Juncker' investment plan.
The budgetary conditions to allow the extension of the public guarantee granted by the EU Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) to selected projects were only briefly touched upon. “It has been clear from the word go...