The French Finance Minister, Bruno Le Maire, is advocating for making the European Commission’s debt mechanism permanent at EU27 level to finance the Next Generation EU Recovery Plan.
“For the heaviest investments, in particular in energy transition, we propose that the joint debt issue carried out to finance the 750 billion euro recovery plan should become a permanent European financing system”, said Mr Le Maire in an interview, on Saturday 3 July, with the daily Le Parisien.
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