The EU treaties entrust the EIB with supporting the reduction of regional disparities in the Union, notably by financing projects in less-developed regions. This evaluation assessed the relevance and impact of EIB financing. EIB support addressed clients’ needs, and is estimated to have a…
Despite the unprecedented challenges, the European Investment Bank Group’s evaluation function (IG/EV) delivered on its ambitious work programme in 2020. It provided timely and useful input for the organisation’s decision-making at the onset of the COVID-19 crisis and helped the EIB Group to…
The EU treaties entrust the EIB with supporting the reduction of regional disparities in the Union, notably by financing projects in less-developed EU regions. The Evaluation Division of the EIB evaluated how the Bank achieved this objective for the period 2007-2018.
A crisis like no other. The COVID-19 pandemic triggered an unprecedented global public health and economic crisis, with a tragic loss of over 3 million lives around the world and over
140 million confirmed cases thus far. The ensuing economic fallout has also been severe, with global…
In 2007, the EIB played a major role in developing the green bond market with the issuance of the first climate awareness bond (CAB), the world's first green bond. Since then, the green bond market has grown substantially in size and sophistication.