08/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Investment Bank has approved several loans for third countries. Syria: a 75 million euro loan to the Syrian government to expand and modernise the electricity distribution network in the country. This is the first funding operation under the ECC-Syria Financial Protocol. The EIB, which had frozen its activities in Syria since 1992, resumed them following the resolution of bilateral problems linked to the debt between Syria and certain Member States,...