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Connecting Europe Facility - Transport, call to maximise private investment

|In Evidence
08 February 2017

New call for proposals to combine Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) with other funding sources, including the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI).

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The European Commission is launching a new and innovative way to finance transport infrastructure projects in Europe. The call for proposals will seek to combine 1 billion of euros of grants (Connecting Europe Facility - Transport) with financing from public financial institutions, the private sector or, for the first time, the European Fund for Strategic Investments, the heart of the Investment Plan for Europe and a top priority for the Juncker Commission.

This first ever combination of funds will help to achieve the twin objectives of boosting investment to fund innovative, sustainable transport infrastructure upgrades while supporting jobs needed to put that infrastruct

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