16/10/2013 (Agence Europe) - Lukewarm response to Commission-EIB move to tackle fragmentation of lending market. Lithuanian finance minister Rimantas Sadzius says the ECOFIN Council is in favour of the option of the EIB giving a guarantee to portfolios of loans to small business, which he said was the easiest option to bring into force in January 2014, but also the least ambitious of the three options on the table (see EUROPE 10941). Euro Commissioner Olli Rehn said he would have preferred...