Archiv: Europäische Investitionsbank / European Investment Bank (EIB)


12.11.2025 - 21:42 [ Hind Rajab Foundation ]

HRF Forces EU Bank to Face Its Complicity in Israeli War Crimes

Brussels- 4 November 2025

On 20 June 2025, the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) filed a formal complaint with the European Investment Bank’s Complaints Mechanism (EIB-CM), urging immediate action to suspend and investigate the EIB’s ongoing financial cooperation with Israeli institutions blacklisted by the United Nations for their involvement in illegal settlements. These investments, amounting to over €1 billion, include support for Bank Leumi, Electra, and other entities named in the UN’s 2020 database for facilitating and profiting from the Israeli settlement enterprise — a core component of the apartheid regime imposed on the Palestinian people.

We are now pleased to announce that this complaint has progressed to the formal assessment phase within the EIB-CM. This development is not merely procedural — it is a political and legal milestone, signaling that a European institution is being forced to reckon with its complicity in grave breaches of international law.

04.05.2023 - 07:56 [ Alliance-Sahel.org ]

Sahel Alliance

In July 2017, France, Germany and the European Union, along with the African Development Bank, the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), launched the Sahel Alliance, an international cooperation platform to do more and better in the Sahel region. Since its launch, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Denmark, the European Investment Bank, Norway, Sweden, the United States and Canada have joined the initiative as full members.

The Sahel Alliance has also 9 observer members: Japan, Belgium, Switzerland, Finland, the International Finance Corporation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Ireland and the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.

24.04.2020 - 18:54 [ Junge Welt ]

EU-Gipfel: 500-Milliarden-Paket angenommen

Der EU-Gipfel hat das vereinbarte Paket mit Kredithilfen von bis zu 540 Milliarden Euro für Kurzarbeiter, Unternehmen und verschuldete Staaten gebilligt. Dies erfuhr dpa am Donnerstag abend von Teilnehmern. Die Hilfen sollen zum 1. Juni bereitstehen.

06.04.2020 - 16:05 [ The European Post / Twitter ]

Ahead of the #Eurogroup, Italian Minister of EU Affairs @amendolaenzo repeats Italy‘s NO to the ESM.

06.04.2020 - 15:58 [ Ansa.it ]

Italy irked after EU rejects coronabonds: ‚They want us to get in debt so they can punish us‘ – Patuanelli

(27.03.2020)

Italy was irked after an EU summit rejected the idea of ‚coronabonds‘ to fund measures to offset the economic impact of the coronavirus

06.04.2020 - 15:52 [ Auswärtiges Amt ]

„A response to the corona crisis in Europe based on solidarity“

Article by Heiko Maas, Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Olaf Scholz, Federal Minister of Finance, on the corona crisis in Europe. Published April 6th, 2020, in different language versions in Les Echos (France), La Stampa (Italy), El País (Spain), Público (Portugal) and Ta Nea (Greece).

06.04.2020 - 15:38 [ Tagesschau ]

Offener Brief von SPD-Ministern: Ja zu Hilfen, kein Wort zu Corona-Bonds

Mit keiner Silbe erwähnen Maas und Scholz diese Corona-Bonds in ihrem Artikel. Der Außen- und der Finanzminister verweisen unter anderem auf einen bereits bestehenden Rettungsschirm – mit dem Namen Europäischer Stabilitätsmechanismus, kurz: ESM, über den sich die Euroländer Kapital besorgen könnten

03.04.2020 - 20:03 [ ORF ]

EU: Berlin und Paris bei Hilfen offenbar einig

So sollen Kredite des Europäischen Stabilitätsmechanismus (ESM) sowie der Europäischen Investitionsbank (EIB) genutzt werden. Zusätzlich könnte die EU Mittel für die Sicherung der Arbeitslosenversicherung der Mitgliedsstaaten bereitstellen.

Frankreich hatte bisher mit einer Gruppe weiterer Mitgliedsstaaten auf die Ausgabe von gemeinsamen Anleihen gedrängt, was von einigen Euro-Staaten wie Deutschland, Österreich und den Niederlanden abgelehnt wurde.

07.07.2018 - 03:06 [ Newsmax ]

EU Steps In to Help Iran Foil US Sanctions

Meeting in Strasbourg on Thursday, the European parliament voted to give the European Investment Bank (EIB) permission to conduct financial services with Iran for the first time.

Financial experts say this will easily open the door to the EIB — conducting full-scale operations in Iran and making significant loans to Iranian businesses from its estimated balance of $500 billion.

21.05.2018 - 21:23 [ Brussels Times ]

EU jumpstarts measures to protect companies investing in Iran

The Commission is also encouraging Member States to explore the possibility of one-off bank transfers to the Central Bank of Iran. This could help the Iranian authorities to receive their oil-related revenues, writes the Commission.
The Commission did not lose any time and dispatched its energy commissioner, Miguel Canete, to Teheran already during the weekend in a show of confidence building. Unusually for EU-Iran meetings, this time the meeting ended with a joint press statement on nuclear safety cooperation and “the strengthening of ties at all levels”.