European Infrastructure Project Finance Market

Abstracts

Project finance in Europe has been negatively impacted by recent events; however, there is widespread opinion on the necessity of relaunching a certain level of investment in European infrastructure.

Even if it is far from clear which are the sources of the investment deficit, infrastructure assets still offer very interesting characteristics to the institutional investors in order to widen their participation in future investments.

Rather than a low demand for long-term capital to be invested in infrastructure projects, there seems to be an insufficient supply of long-term finance. In any case, a higher supply of capital for this particular market segment is not granted and needs to be encouraged and assisted by policy measures.