Investing in Long-Term Europe: re-launching Fixed, Network and Social Infrastructure

This Volume collects contributions on the critical link between investment and growth in Europe. It aims at documenting the fundamental shift in policy concepts that took place in the EU around 2015. This period was defined by the critical transition under way: from recession to recovery, from inward-looking interrogations to pressure for action and delivery, from depression to market volatility and uncertainty; from one European legislature to the next. Financial markets have been at the centre of this transition. "Finance for growth" encapsulated this change of sentiment. The contributions, representing a variety of points of view and perspectives, illustrate the meaning and value of "finance for growth", and how and why this concept can been applied, and has been applied, to the most prominent items in the European economic policy agenda.