Repayment of the financing depends on the cash flows of the project (limited recourse project financing) rather than on the guarantees of other parties.
Most would like the pair to announce a joint initiative to pave a revolution for European government financing along the lines of mutual guarantees for joint issues of Eurobonds.
That is because European, South Korean and Japanese yards are able to offer easy financing terms thanks, among other things, to government export-credit guarantees.
The OECD found that increased government loan guarantees and venture capital and equity funding were the most common government responses to the financing gap.