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- ↑ "EPEC webpage - activities". www.eib.org. Archived from the original on 22 January 2011. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ↑ Mathieu Vervynckt and María José Romero (2017). "Public-Private Partnerships:Defusing the ticking time bomb" (PDF). eurodad .
- ↑ "EUROSTAT treatment / Debt and deficit treatment of PPPs according to Eurostat". European Investment Bank. 2015. Retrieved 2019-10-17.