Serving European policies. The European Investment Bank (EIB) has never been so much in the news. All the plans for getting out of the financial crisis agree on the EIB's role in the face of the threatening economic crisis. One could innocently ask oneself why, at a time when bankers and the financial world in general are being blamed as the main culprits for the current problems, the EU should hand essential work like funding small and medium-sized enterprises (the main creators of jobs in...