A Proposal for a Public Infrastructure Leasing Entity for Europe

A Proposal for a Public Infrastructure Leasing Entity for Europe

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Is it possible to accelerate public investment without increasing national taxes or public debt? The authors of this piece believe so, and present a mechanism to relieve member states’ public finances, which are already burdened by ballooning deficits and galloping deficit ratios. The novelty of the mechanism stems from bringing a widely used private sector financing technique – namely that of leasing – to the sphere of public finance, and organising it at the pan-European level. This interesting approach could lead to similiar ideas in other regions of the world.

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