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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9827

28 January 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/eib
Société Générale and EIB grant credit lines worth €1.5 billion for French SMEs in 2008

Brussels, 27/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 23 January, with Christine Lagarde, the French minister for the economy at their side, the Société Générale and the European Investment Bank (EIB) signed an agreement to grant a credit line of €300 million to fund French small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This operation is part of the €30bn support plan (€15bn of which is for 2008-09) launched by the EIB to assist European SMEs, and boosted by the French Presidency of the EU...

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