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“We need the migrants but we don’t like them. We need to solve this paradox”. This is how Philippe Fargues, Director of the Migration Policy Centre at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, opened the EIB...
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Social impact investments target a social objective as well as a financial return. By adding a new dimension – impact – to risk and return, the usual two dimensions that capital market investors take into account, “impact investing has the potential to...
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Infrastructure finance has a very long history, starting with the first known large-scale construction site in Göbekli Tepe in Upper Mesopotamia in 9000-7000 BC, or the walled towns and sanitation of the Roman Empire (44 BC- 476 AD) to the first private water supply,...
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The Capital Markets Union (CMU) is a plan of the European Commission to mobilise capital in Europe by making capital markets deeper and more integrated so that Europe relies less on banks for financing the economy. It is a key element of the Investment Plan announced...