On Thursday 18 April, the European Parliament set in stone the Interinstitutional Agreement on the InvestEU programme to extend the Juncker investment plan (see EUROPE B12218A14) beyond 2020.
The future InvestEU Fund will provide a public guarantee based on the European Union budget to attract private investment to finance risky investment projects.
MEPs want to increase this guarantee from €38 billion to €40.8 billion in order to be able to attract nearly €700 billion in...