Brussels, 08/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Investment Bank put forwards its assessment for 2000, presented on Thursday to the press, the reform of its functioning and the merging of its efforts in favour of the knowledge and innovation Europe. Last year the EIB loaned EUR 36 billion, of which 30.6 billion in the European Union and close to 3 billion to the candidate countries, while it borrowed EUR 29 billion on the world capital markets. The level of these loans increased by 13%...