On 24 September 2020, the World Bank and the European Investment Bank (EIB) launched the City Climate Finance Gap Fund to support the development of a project pipeline aiming at providing green urban infrastructure in emerging and developing ...

EIC’s innovative “Blending 2.0” concept consists of EU concessional development loans arranged by Lead Financiers ,which are syndicated amongst commercial banks to the extent that commercial bank finance can be guaranteed by comprehensive insurance ...

EIC considers that the preferred option to implement the ‘Team Europe’ approach on the financial level would be to establish a European Climate and Sustainable Development Bank (ECSDB) based on the EIB or an EIB + subsidiary. ...

Around 90 participants from 15 countries took the opportunity to convene for a face-to-face event on ‘Infrastructure Finance in Africa’ in the context of EIC’s Spring Conference.

At the 5th Meeting of the Thematic Group on International Competitiveness in March 2018 in Brussels, which operates in the context of the "Construction 2020" Action Plan, EIC called upon European policy-makers to recalibrate the competitive framework ...

On 23 September 2025, EIC President Gustavo Martínez and EIC Director Frank Kehlenbach participated in the Autumn Plenary Meeting of the Global Gateway Business Advisory Group (BAG) in Brussels, chaired by the Director-General of DG INTPA, Koen Doens.

Aid for Trade is assistance provided to support partner countries' efforts to develop economic capacities and expand their trade as leverage for growth and poverty reduction. Globally, the EU and its Member States are the biggest provider of Aid for ...

European international contractors have a long-standing record of delivering infrastructure projects in Africa, but had to progressively reduce their market presence over the past two decades due to the unlevel playing field in the competition with ...

EIC welcomes the new EU Global Gateway Strategy as a positive signal to EU partners, however, delivery model for transport infrastructure needs refinement.

The EIC Workshop on 10 October 2025 during the Autumn Conference in Vienna attracted more than 90 delegates for a vivid discussion on the Global Gateway strategy in the transport sector.

The Joint Report on MDB’s Climate Finance seeks to publish the MDB climate finance figures in developing countries and emerging economies. ...

In September 2017, the European Parliament and the Council adopted the European Fund for Sustainable Development (EFSD), which is the core piece of the EU's new External Investment Plan (EIP). The intention of the EIP is to support more inclusive and ...