Old and new public-private collaboration in the execution of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan

Abstract

The article describes the long legal trajectory of the topic “public-private collaboration” and shows how the initial reconstruction at the beginning of the century of that category, (financial needs of the public sector) has been surpassed by new circumstances in which the public power seeks private participation not only to implement the largest stimulus package known to the European Union, but also to face the challenges of sovereignty and strategic independence of the Union, although this aspect does not seem to have been taken into account by the Spanish Recovery and Resilience Plan, which continues to adhere to formulas (PERTES, grants, consortia, Societies) that are already far from the new public-private Strategic Alliances that European law designs.

Keywords:

Public-private collaboration, concession, PERTE, grant, strategic alliance