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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9981

22 September 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/eib
EIB and Caja Navarra sign agreement to pump €300 million into SMEs

Brussels, 21/09/2009 (Agence Europe) - The European Investment Bank (EIB) has just approved a €150 million loan to Caja Navarra (CAN) designed to create a new credit line for financing small businesses. Under the agreement, CAN will match the EIB loan with a further €150 million, meaning that €300 million will be pumped into the SME sector.

The EIB loan is designed to finance SME investment projects mainly in the industrial and service sectors, but also intangibles such as the...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: In favour of a positive interpretation of the outcome of the "Finance" European Council
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/EDA: European Defence Agency prepares for watershed in its history
(EU) EU/GEORGIA: Hansjörg Haber says situation in Georgia is “relatively good”
(EU) EU/UN:
(EU) EU/LISBON TREATY: Commission campaigning in Ireland
(EU) EU/ITALY: Berlusconi calls for hard-core of member states if Lisbon treaty fails
(EU) EU/SLOVAKIA: Commissioner Figel' to go early at end of month
(EU) EU/DEFENCE:
(EU) UNITED STATES /AFGHANISTAN: Slow but tangible progress in development strategy in certain regions of Afghanistan
(EU) EU/MIDDLE EAST: Tripartite summit to be held in New York on Tuesday
(EU) EP/G20 SUMMIT:
(EU) EP/KOSOVO:
(EU) EU/IRAN/ISRAEL:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/JHA COUNCIL: 27 give their green light to continuing work on voluntary resettlement of refugees from third countries
(EU) EU/JHA COUNCIL:
(EU) EU/JHA COUNCIL:
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES: Party of European Socialists, unions and social charities call for ratcheting up of regulation
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES: Commission examines question of sharing financial burden in cross-border bankruptcies
(EU) EU/CLIMATE: As UN and G20 Summits approach, Barroso calls on heads of state to move - Germany and France call for carbon tax at borders
(EU) EU/CLIMATE: EU experts approve list of 164 industrial sectors that could suffer as result of carbon leakage after 2013
(EU) EU/REGIONAL POLICY: Black Sea macro-region on initiative of Assembly of European Regions?
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission says it did not base decision on Intel on “allegations”
(EU) EU/SOCIAL: EGF provides €14.8 million to help redundant Dell workers in Ireland
(EU) EU/MULTILINGUALISM: Commission celebrates European Day of languages
(EU) EU/IMMIGRATION: 70th anniversary of CIMADE
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EU/APPOINTMENT: Gérard de Nazelle appointed EIT Director
(EU) EU/STATISTICS: 2009 edition of Eurostat yearbook published
(EU) EU/TRADE:
(EU) EU/ENERGY:
(EU) EU/EIB: EIB and Caja Navarra sign agreement to pump €300 million into SMEs
(EU) EU/EIB: Loan to VW India for manufacturing three small models
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Main legislative acts published in EU Official Journal
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
(EU) Investments:
SUPPLEMENT
« EUROPE »/Documents No. 2523: How European Defence Agency becomes increasingly operational
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT
European Library: No. 839
€ VALUE IN DIFFERENT CURRENCIES ON 21/09/2009: