Brussels, 18/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - At midday on 17 February, the EU finance ministers discussed the setting up of a European Investment Bank financing facility but the assessment of requirements is incomplete and it is therefore too soon to take a position, the Council says. We recall that, further to the earthquake in Asia, the EIB had proposed setting up a loan facility ranging between EUR 500 million to 1 billion to support the financing of reconstruction in the countries hit by the...