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Matt Rees in European Investment Bank CONNECT

A drive along Italy’s roads

In the 1960s Italian motorways started to connect the poorer south with the industrial north — and beyond

Matt Rees in European Investment Bank CONNECT

Quasi-equity: A new financial structure for a new challenge

Quasi-equity investments provide an important tool for the EIB in delivering on the Investment Plan for Europe

Allar Tankler in European Investment Bank CONNECT

Vilnius urban infrastructure: Streetlighting to cut crime

The Vilnius urban infrastructure project should make Lithuania’s capital safer

Matt Rees in European Investment Bank CONNECT

A bridge to zen

The 1990s saw the construction of the Öresund Bridge, a vital transport link in the Trans European Network — and one Swedish motorcyclist’s daily moment of zen

Matt Rees in European Investment Bank CONNECT

Genes unite a divided Cyprus

The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics boosts its research and patient care — for Greek and Turkish Cypriots

Allar Tankler in European Investment Bank CONNECT

Jordan climate project: The solar wheel of fortune

Smart regulation from the Jordanian government leads to an investment in an innovative renewable energy fund

Matt Rees in European Investment Bank CONNECT

A bank aboard the Airbus

Since the 1970s Airbus developed new concepts in air transport with planes built across Europe

Matt Rees in European Investment Bank CONNECT

Big science: a decade of innovation

In the first decade of the new millennium, the large hadron collider took European innovation into a new dimension

Matt Rees in European Investment Bank CONNECT

Be smart: Smart city finance for your citizens

A smart city uses technology to improve services to its citizens and to deliver a better environment for people to live in by tackling challenges such as…

Matt Rees in European Investment Bank CONNECT

Interview with the EIB’s Road Safety Expert

The Maltese EU Presidency held a two-day road safety conference this week, bringing together experts, stakeholders, and policy-makers with the aim of proposing…

Allar Tankler in European Investment Bank CONNECT

Small islands, big impact

Salaheddine Mezouar, president of the UN climate treaties conference COP22, says the event, which takes place in Morocco in November, will allow “the voices of the most…

Allar Tankler in European Investment Bank CONNECT

Ice on planes: Do passenger jets need winter tyres?

Estonia’s main airport upgrades to cope with increasingly extreme weather — and counter the environmental effect of all the de-icing it has to do

Matt Rees in European Investment Bank CONNECT

A Creative Light: Ouarzazate stories

Eight creative writers went to the desert with no instructions, except to write something amazing. They did.

Matt Rees in European Investment Bank CONNECT

International finance organisations commit to climate action boost

In a climate finance statement, more than 30 major international financial institutions affirm their commitment to the fight against…

Matt Rees in European Investment Bank CONNECT

Green finance: all your questions answered now

This green finance podcast series answers questions about climate change and the finance needed to fight it

Allar Tankler in European Investment Bank CONNECT

Digital media: Lights, camera, EFSI

Swedish media group behind “Beck” and “Wallander” aims for bigger digital presence

Allar Tankler in European Investment Bank CONNECT

Greece EFSI: When it is most needed

Greeks were the ancient world’s most inventive thinkers. The Investment Plan for Europe helps today’s Greeks meet the challenge of innovation

Matt Rees in European Investment Bank CONNECT

Urban development gets on the agenda

The UK remade industrial inner cities in the 1980s as vibrant urban centres — a strategy that has been taken up all over Europe

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