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EIC and its French Member Federation SEFI-FNTP are pleased to welcome you to the EIC Spring Conference 2025 in Bordeaux.","2025-04-24","2025-04-25","Bordeaux, France","eic-spring-conference-2025",{"id":199,"width":200,"height":201,"title":202,"blurhash":203},"ef4349f7-9e0e-4d22-a0d1-8c676d08b8cd",5990,3992,"Shutterstock 384939334","UfOWNmjaIWxut:bcofoe%4n$R+WVa%WCkCRj",{"title":205,"topic":206,"summary":207,"date_start":208,"date_end":209,"location":210,"url":211,"cover":212},"EIC Autumn Conference 2024","Collaborative Delivery Models","Velkommen til København - WELCOME TO Copenhagen EIC and its Danish Member Federation, DI Danish Construction (DI Byggeri), are pleased to welcome you to the EIC Autumn Conference 2024 in Copenhagen","2024-10-03","2024-10-04","Copenhagen, Denmark","eic-autumn-conference-2024",{"id":213,"width":214,"height":215,"title":216,"blurhash":217},"20a86ce1-f129-434b-86d3-96159a9ebac6",1406,1000,"Image","UuMQ6RMdNHx]_NV@s:ofg5S#odaf%goLayof",{"title":219,"topic":220,"summary":221,"date_start":222,"date_end":223,"location":224,"url":225,"cover":226},"Joint FIEC-EIC Spring Conference 2024",null,"Bienvenue à Bruxelles – WELCOME TO Brussels FIEC and EIC, in collaboration with its Belgian Member Federation, Embuild, are pleased to welcome you to the Joint FIEC-EIC Spring 2024 Conference in Brussels with a Workshop on: Building the change: Ho","2024-05-16","2024-05-17","Brussels, Belgium","joint-fiec-eic-spring-conference-2024",{"id":227,"width":186,"height":228,"title":229,"blurhash":230},"9c4996ff-5f12-4e64-b720-b3e752bfd382",1396,"Shutterstock 1946871412 Scstock Standardlizenz Websize.jpg","UsH2gRaJWrSjBHS6s,aeIuS6kDWBwsn#WEa#",{"title":232,"topic":220,"summary":233,"date_start":234,"date_end":235,"location":236,"url":237,"cover":238},"EIC Autumn Conference 2023","Welkom in Amsterdam– WELCOME TO Amsterdam EIC and its Dutch Member Federation, Netherlands Association of Maritime Business (NABU), are pleased to welcome you to the EIC Autumn Conference 2023 in Amsterdam with a Workshop on: The Global Energy Tran","2023-10-05","2023-10-06","Amsterdam, The Netherlands","eic-autumn-conference-2023",{"id":239,"width":50,"height":240,"title":241,"blurhash":242},"57e1a1ec-5e09-407b-8e1c-b5887752839d",1534,"Leitmotiv Shutterstock 2219032311 Web Besser.jpg","UYJt3U^*%1s.~9%1s+ofogbwM{RjS*WYaejb",{"page":244},{"id":245,"title":246,"article_date":247,"show_news":45,"show_industry":39,"tags":220,"body":248,"themes":287,"types":290,"downloads":291},1473,"Report on the European Financial Architecture ","2019-10-17T22:00:00",{"type":249,"content":250},"doc",[251,257,261,265],{"type":252,"content":253},"paragraph",[254],{"text":255,"type":256},"The European Union (EU) and its Members States have historically been the largest development donors in the world, contributing to improvements in poverty reduction and wealth creation around the globe. 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