Paul Mudde explains how financial additionality can help ensure that public funding supports projects that cannot obtain sufficient financing elsewhere, rather than replacing funding that is already available. He proposes a common ‘commercial viability test’ to reduce unnecessary subsidies, attract private investment and direct public resources towards the projects and countries that need them most.
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