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Why Europe is struggling to fill its investment gap
“Some common debt may be unavoidable but it is controversial, even if it is only used for productivity-increasing investments in EU public goods such as breakthrough innovations, defence and cross-border energy infrastructure,” analysts at the Centre for European Reform wrote in a recent report.