Join me on 13 May for the launch event of the EP Intergroup “Attracting Investment to Ensure a Competitive and Sustainable EU”.

Keynote speakers:
🔹 Stéphane Séjourné, European Commission EVP
🔹 Enrico Letta, author of the Report on the Future of the Single Market and former Italian PM

Today's @eib.org Board took strategic decisions to foster investment for a stronger and safer Europe:

✔️Stepping up support for Europe’s security and defence capabilities
✔️Expanding investment in critical raw materials
✔️€8.9bn for new projects inside the EU and across the world

Very productive exchange at the European Investment Fund Board, with over €1 billion in financing approved, including:

✔️pioneering early-stage capital investment for security & defence technology companies
✔️guarantees for farmers & small agricultural businesses in France
✔️energy efficiency projects

We invest where it's needed, fostering Europe's priorities.

Our Board approved measures to:

🔵 step up support for Europe's security & defence industry
🔵 double critical raw materials investment
🔵 finance projects worth €8.9bn

🔗 bit.ly/BoD_March

Europe can no longer afford to be a bystander in its own security.

Today, we take decisive steps to ensure our defence is in our hands.

We are unveiling the ReARM Europe Plan / Readiness 2030 and the White Paper on the Future of European Defence / Readiness 2030 ↓

europa.eu/!J9qy7c

🚀 Europe needs a Savings & Investment Union #SIU that truly unlocks #capital for growth. But regulatory barriers still hold back vital investment.

@investeurope.bsky.social position paper outlines 3 key fixes.🔍SIU is a real opportunity—let’s make it work.🧵👇

www.investeurope.eu/media/1xtlki...

The EU’s #CompetitivenessCompass is a step forward—but does it really tackle the financing barriers facing Europe’s most innovative businesses?

At Invest Europe, we break down what’s missing & what policymakers must do to unlock growth. 🧵👇

www.investeurope.eu/news/opinion...

Yesterday during the @europarl.europa.eu ECON hearing on the future of the Capital Markets Union, Enrico Letta and Christian Noyer presented the #CMU related aspects of their recently published reports.

Both stressed the need for mobilising private capital and the urgency for action.

The massive funding request in infrastructure needs to be tackled as there will never be enough public money to fund Europe’s investment needs. But there is more than enough private investment.

Invest Europe’s data shows how the European private equity and venture capital industry has evolved.

Nice @pkrugman.bsky.social blog on why the US dominates tech, and what Europe can (and cannot) learn from America. 1/

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-does-u...