A parliamentary hearing of Finland's Jyrki Katainen, one of the seven vice-presidents in the new EU commission, has shed little light on where the money for a vaunted €300 billion investment plan will come from.
Incoming EU commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has promised to raise €300 billion to be spent over the next three years in the 28 EU member states.
He has put Katainen, vice-president for "jobs, growth, investment and competitiveness" in charge of this money-raising proj...
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