2018 annual press conference

Speaking at the EIB Group’s 2017 results press conference, Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank, explained: “In its first 60 years the EU bank has delivered investments worth over a trillion euros based on a cash contribution by the Member States of 14 billion. This is not the case for any other bank. It’s an excellent deal. And I assure you we will build on that.”

During the Q&A session of the EIB Group’s 2017 results press conference, journalists from across Europe asked EIB Group leaders about the overall EIB financing, development, defence, the implications of Brexit, Volkswagen and cohesion, among other topics. 

During the Q&A session of the EIB Group’s 2017 results press conference, journalists from across Europe asked EIB Group leaders about the overall EIB financing, development, defence, the implications of Brexit, Volkswagen and cohesion, among other topics.

The Portuguese entrepreneur who quit his finance job to play with toys.

Rewilding Europe has a new solution for biodiversity management and revives ancient animals in the process.

The key ingredient in powerful devices for storing energy has been charred coconut. Now a company in icy Estonia has figured out how to make a supercapacitor without tropical fruit.

Essen was a byword for industrial pollution. But in 2017 it has been named European Green Capital. Here's the German city's secret of this recipe for an environmental revolution.

Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians join to counter a regional water crisis and save the Dead Sea.

Microlux gives socially excluded people in Luxembourg a chance to run their own businesses.