22/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - Loan for SMEs in Belgium. The European Investment Bank (EIB) and BNP Paribas Fortis signed, on Tuesday 21 December, a new partnership agreement on an EIB loan of €150 million for Belgian SMEs, further to a request made by SMEs and utilisation of the loan opened in August 2009. Ensuring continuity with the first operation, the agencies of the BNP Paribas Fortis network will retrocede EIB funds in the form of credit to small and medium-sized companies in order to...