CMU: A Tool to Unlock Investments in Infrastructures

CEEP welcomes the publication of the Action Plan on building a Capital Markets Union, aiming at boosting funding to enterprises and remove barriers to investment within the EU. The plan brings in a much-awaited long-term perspective, which main purpose is to identify the barriers to cross-border flow of investment and work out how to overcome them.

Commenting the Action Plan, Valeria Ronzitti, CEEP General Secretary, said:

We believe that the transversal approach adopted by the Commission is the most appropriate. Surely, it will not be easy to tackle all the barriers and hurdles complicating the link between European savings and long-term sustainable investment in infrastructures.

 

However, after the Juncker Plan, this Action Plan on building a Capital Market Union is another step to better channel financial capabilities to projects waiting to be funded.

 

For CEEP members, this is especially good news, as providers of public services know perfectly how investments in infrastructures are key for an effective and efficient provisions of public services to citizens.”