Our Mission is to further the objectives of the European Union by making long-term finance available for sound investment.
The EIB Group promotes Corporate Responsibility through its mission and activities in the service of the European Union, through the way it implements these and through its internal management.
The EIB attaches great importance to engaging with civil society and building cooperative relations with its representatives.
One of the EIB Group’s top operational priorities is to support the investments of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the engine of Europe’s economy.
Well before the crisis erupted, the EIB undertook a wide-ranging consultation of SME market players enabling it to develop a new lending product, dubbed EIB loans for SMEs. Available since October 2008 and channelled through commercial banks, these new loans are simpler, more flexible and more transparent, making it possible to reach a greater number of European SMEs.
The EIB has continued its critical contribution to the European SME sector in 2010 with a total of EUR 10 billion in support of this important market. This has brought signatures of EIB loans for SMEs to some EUR 30 billion with intermediary banks between 2008 and 2010, meeting the target set in the 2008 European Economic Recovery Plan one year early. More than 160 000 SMEs received finance from the EIB during this three year period, helping to fill the funding gap for SMEs, which have found it particularly difficult to obtain financing in these challenging economic circumstances.
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