Brussels, 07/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - Following a request from the European Parliament's Budgets Committee (chaired by Polish EPP-ED MEP Janusz Lewandowski), the President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Philippe Maystadt, outlined to the Committee the EIB's three new financial instruments to back the revised Lisbon Strategy, explaining that if people believe the European economy needs greater investment in R&D, then it had to give itself the resources and focus on the lever effect....