The EU’s Pandemic Recovery Bond Sales May Pick Up From Mid-2022
- Bloc plans to sell 50 billion euros of bonds in the first half
- Bills to provide funding flexibility, Commissioner Hahn says
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The European Union may increase bond issuance to finance its recovery from the pandemic in the second half of this year.
The bloc plans to sell 50 billion euros ($56 billion) of so-called NextGenerationEU bonds in the first six months of 2022, and potentially “a little bit more” in the second half, Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn told reporters in Brussels on Tuesday.