The Implications of EIB and EBRD Co-Financing for the EU Budget
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16-03-2011
Recent years have seen the growth of a number of EU co-financing instruments designed to enhance the leverage of the EU budget by working more closely with the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. However, the growth of such instruments raises potential concerns in relation to financial control and liability, in relation to governance, transparency and visibility and in relation to the extent to which such activity helps the deliverability of EU objectives.
Study
External author
Nick Robinson (School of Politics and international Studies, University of Leeds, UK) and Robert Bain (RBconsult Ltd, Weald, Kent, UK)
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Publication type
Policy area
Keyword
- budget
- budgetary control
- co-financing
- Community loan
- coordination of financing
- EBRD
- EU finance
- EU institutions and European civil service
- European Investment Bank
- European organisations
- EUROPEAN UNION
- FINANCE
- financing and investment
- general budget (EU)
- institutional structure
- INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS