Following the approval of the Own Resources Decision, the European Commission announced started the issuing of long-term bonds in 2021 to finance the NGEU requirements (covering the RRF and other programmes of the NGEU), to be topped up by short-term EU-Bills to cover sort term flexible financing requirements.
This section presents the issuances of the bonds, maturities and yields of EU long term bonds. The issuance of short term securities in also presented for completeness, but this has little budgetary repercussions due to their short duration and their role as a balance the cash flows when needed.
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The information on all the debts transactions for NGEU is taken from this website by the European Commission: NextGenerationEU transactions data.
It lists all transactions of long term bonds using syndication or auction, as well as the short term bills used for cash-flow purposes. For this site, only the long term bonds issued to finance NGEU are of interest and presented in the graph above.