The council plans to finance the proposal through borrowing and using capital receipts.

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The fear of losing the opportunity to finance government operations through borrowing was enough to keep anyone from so much as mentioning the idea lest lenders get nervous and raise the cost of borrowing.

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The German finance ministry feared the commission was trying to establish a precedent for centralized European public borrowing, through EU bonds.

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