24/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Investment Bank (EIB) is to lend EUR 27 million to the Slovakian Republic in order to finance the last section (3.9 km) of the motorway ringroad to the south of Bratislava, which links the pan-European corridors V and IV. The EIB jointly funds this project with ISPA, the non-refundable aid programme set in place by the EU to support infrastructure projects in the areas of transport and the environment in the future Member States.