Brussels, 09/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday the president and vice president of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Philippe Maystadt and Wolfgang Rothe, presented the press with a balance sheet of the bank's activities for 2005, the details of which are as follows (EUROPE 8882 for details of the 2004 balance sheet).
In 2005 the EIB lent almost EUR 47.4 billion (compared to 43.2 billion in 2004) supporting projects in support of EU objectives, notably those in the Lisbon Agenda....