The investment challenge in the EU

• Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
• FBF: Florence School of Banking and Finance

As part of the 'FBF Women in Finance' lecture series, Irene Tinagli, Member of the European Parliament and Chair of the Economic & Monetary Affairs Committee, discusses the need to mobilise public and private resources to fill the EU's current investment gaps.

Next Generation EU offers an extraordinary and unprecedented opportunity to deploy resources sustaining the recovery and preparing the Union for the future, by addressing the major challenges of our times.

These important resources, however, are far from being enough.

According to many estimates, the EU faces relevant investment gaps in many sectors to reach the objectives it has set for itself, in particular as regards the digital and ecological transitions. To cope with these investment gaps, both public and private resources are needed.