European Commission | Investment leaders in Brussels to discuss competitiveness strategies

Executive Vice-President for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy, Stéphane Séjourné, is opening today the second edition of the InvestEU High-Level Event in Brussels. The event provides an outlook on the contribution of InvestEU to Europe’s competitiveness, the flexibility offered by the instrument in de-risking and attracting private investments, as well as the role that InvestEU can play in the future MFF and the European Competitiveness Fund. The programme highlights InvestEU’s growing impact across key areas such as innovation, decarbonisation and the social sector. It brings together implementing partners, project beneficiaries, private investors, policymakers and the broader stakeholder community.

The opening session includes an exchange of views between Andrzej Domański, Minister of Finance of Poland, and Nadia Calviño, President of the European Investment Bank.

This will be followed by four thematic panel discussions focusing on the Clean Industrial Deal, breakthrough technologies, social investment and skills, and the mobilisation of EU-based private capital. Participants include speakers from the financing sector and project promoters.

The InvestEU programme provides the European Union with crucial long-term funding by leveraging private and public funds in support of Europe’s sustainable recovery. It helps to mobilise private investments for the EU’s top policy priorities, such as the green, and digital transition, innovation and social investments and skills. The InvestEU Fund is implemented through financial partners that will invest in projects, benefitting from the protection of EU budget guarantee. The €26.2 billion EU budget guarantee backs the investments of financial partners, increasing their risk-bearing capacity and thus allowing to mobilise at least €372 billion in additional investments.

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