Hungary

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is extending a €207 million credit to the City of Zagreb in Croatia for infrastructure upgrades critical for the Croatian capital’s sustainable development.  The financing marks the EIB’s first loan signature with the City of Zagreb. The credit is the initial tranche of a €395 million EIB framework loan to support the city’s development in the next five years.

The EIB’s Investment Survey published today polls more than 13 000 companies globally about the investment climate, focusing on employment, digital transformation, and climate issues. Against a backdrop of modest GDP growth and tight monetary conditions, Hungarian firms were cautiously optimistic about the investment outlook.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) today launched the sixth edition of its Climate Survey. These are some of the most striking results of this annual survey conducted in August and September 2023. Running since 2018, the EIB Climate Survey offers insights into the climate change-related views of people in major economies around the world, with more than 30 000 respondents in the European Union, the United States, China, India, Japan, the United Kingdom, UAE, Canada and South Korea. The EIB is the lending arm of the European Union and the world’s largest multilateral lender for climate action projects.