Invest-NL and Invest International, which are in the process of merging into one national investment institute, say the Dutch government’s planned 3.3-billion-euro injection into a new national investment institution won’t be enough to finance large-scale investments structurally. Combined with the existing capital of the two state-backed investors, the new institution would start with roughly 6.6 billion euros. However, a substantial part of that capital has already been committed.
The two organizations argue that the institute will eventually need additional government capital or the ability to raise funding independently, backed by some form of state guarantee. They point to Germany’s KfW and France’s Bpifrance as examples of institutions that use such a model to increase their financing capacity and attract more private and institutional capital.
