scholarly journals Promoting Investment in the European Union, Evaluating the Juncker Plan

2020 ◽  
pp. 323-335
Author(s):  
Stephany Griffith-Jones
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Investment Bank ◽  
Strategic Investment ◽  
European Investment Bank ◽  
European Investment

AbstractThis chapter analyzes the Juncker Plan, in particular, the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI), highlighting its achievements in expanding investment in the European Union and challenges in mitigating future risks to the European Investment Bank, as well as maximizing the development impact of its activities.

3. The institutions of the European Union

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-78
Author(s):  
Margot Horspool ◽  
Matthew Humphreys ◽  
Michael Wells-Greco
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Central Bank ◽  
European Council ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Investment Bank ◽  
European Investment Bank ◽  
European Central ◽  
European Investment ◽  
Committee Of The Regions ◽  
The Eu

This chapter discusses the role and composition of the institutions of the EU. These include the European Council, the Council, the Commission, the European Parliament, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the General Court, the Court of Auditors, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), the Committee of the Regions (COR), the European Investment Bank and the European Central Bank. This chapter also discusses the EU’s associated bodies or agencies as well as their respective roles and the ways in which they interrelate with the EU institutions.

3. The institutions of the Union

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margot Horspool ◽  
Matthew Humphreys ◽  
Michael Wells-Greco
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
European Central Bank ◽  
European Council ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Investment Bank ◽  
European Investment Bank ◽  
European Central ◽  
European Investment ◽  
Committee Of The Regions

This chapter discusses the institutions of the EU and associated bodies. These include the European Council, the Council, the Commission, the European Parliament, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the General Court, the Court of Auditors, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), the Committee of the Regions (COR), the European Investment Bank, and the European Central Bank.

The European Investment Bank

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-115
Author(s):  
Judith Clifton ◽  
Daniel Díaz-Fuentes ◽  
Ana Lara Gómez
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Investment Bank ◽  
European Investment Bank ◽  
Capital Constraints ◽  
European Investment ◽  
The Cold War

The European Investment Bank (EIB) constitutes one of the main institutional pillars upon which the European Union (EU) was built. Strikingly, the institution has attracted little research. EIB Statutes can be condensed down to five overarching objectives that its lending should prioritize: originally, development, integration and investment, and, since the mid-1990s, environmental protection and tackling unemployment. This chapter provides a comprehensive qualitative analysis of EIB lending to Europe from its origins to the present and examines the Bank’s loans in light of its lending objectives. We find a watershed moment occurring at the end of the Cold War. Until the 1990s, the EIB promoted integration and development above the alleviation of capital constraints. Since then, however, there was a progressive ‘mechanization’ of EIB loans at the expense of securing the institution’s mission, to the extent that loans were increasingly associated with capital subscribed by its members. This could mean that the EIB mission as found in its Statutes and its lending practice is becoming increasingly misaligned.

Article 343 TFEU

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Klamert
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
European Central Bank ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Investment Bank ◽  
Member States ◽  
European Investment Bank ◽  
European Central ◽  
European Investment

Article 291 EC The Union shall enjoy in the territories of the Member States such privileges and immunities as are necessary for the performance of its tasks, under the conditions laid down in the Protocol of 8 April 1965 on the privileges and immunities of the European Union. The same shall apply to the European Central Bank and the European Investment Bank.

scholarly journals Climate finance activities of the multilateral development banks, emphasizing the role of the European Investment Bank in this regard

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 294-306
Author(s):  
Zoltán Eperjesi
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Regional Disparities ◽  
Climate Finance ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Investment Bank ◽  
Multilateral Development Banks ◽  
European Investment Bank ◽  
Development Banks ◽  
European Investment

Regional disparities have always been present in the history of the European Union that has become more and more significant and intense on the occasion of the continuous enlargements of the integration. The European Investment Bank (EIB) as a policy driven development bank of the European Union plays a crucial role in reducing these regional disparities and fostering the social and territorial cohesion of the union by providing funds at favourable terms. The EIB, on the path of considerable metamorphosis, is being transformed to a so called climate or green bank, having simultaneously two task to fulfil, namely to strengthen the European Union’s position on the multi-polar global market and secure a just transition for those regions that are mostly hit by the measures taken for a climate-friendly and environmentally sustainable economy. All of the multilateral development banks following the parity and disparity models place great emphasis upon climate finance to contribute to sustainable economic growth, increasing employment and a heathy planet. The research covers the period of time between 2015 and 2025.

scholarly journals Seismic Risks: a Criminological Analysis of European Investment Bank Support for the Castor Project

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Beizsley
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Coast ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Development Cost ◽  
Underground Gas Storage ◽  
Investment Bank ◽  
Cost Overruns ◽  
European Investment Bank ◽  
European Investment ◽  
Criminological Analysis

Abstract The Castor project was a proposed underground gas storage facility off Spain’s Mediterranean coast financed through a public–private partnership (PPP) between the Spanish state and a consortium led by the Spanish conglomerate Grupo ACS. During the project’s development, cost overruns led to it being refinanced through a bond issuance organized by the European Investment Bank (EIB)—the finance arm of the European Union (EU). On reaching the injection stage, gas escaped violently causing hundreds of small-scale earthquakes resulting in the project’s closure and, as per the terms of the concession, the generation of a €1.3 billion debt for Spanish gas consumers. Using criminological concepts and theory, this article will first explore how the seismic risks that the project posed were excluded from the EIB appraisal process before identifying the causes of the disaster as a product of the “financialization” of infrastructure and investor protection frameworks needed to sustain it.

scholarly journals THE SOVEREIGN GREEN BONDS MARKET IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: ANALYSIS AND GOOD PRACTICES

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-172
Author(s):  
Vanya Dencheva Tsonkova
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Global Market ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Investment Bank ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
Sovereign Bonds ◽  
International Regulations ◽  
Sustainable Finance ◽  
Legislative Changes ◽  
European Investment

In a world facing the growing problems of climate change and social differentiation, the so-called ―sustainable finance‖ increases its importance and popularity. The object of this field of study is the transfer of capital flows to projects with clearly defined environmental and social benefits. Key instruments are Green bonds, Social bonds and Sustainability bonds. The article is dedicated to green bonds, focusing on sovereign issues. It is widely known that the green bond market begins its development with the so-called ―supranational‖ issues – the bonds of the international financial institutions – the European Investment Bank in 2007 and the World Bank in 2008, for financing renewable energy projects. The real boom in the market starts in 2014 when new issues reach nearly $ 40 billion – four times more than in 2013. Exponential growth continues in the coming years, reaching $ 155 billion in 2017. Sovereign green bonds make a relatively late debut on the market – in the end of 2016, in a member state of the European Union – Poland. However, in 2018 government issues have already had a significant appearance on the market and are a strong signal of the state's commitment to environmental problems. The article analyzes the state of the European market in the context of the global market for sovereign green bonds. Review of international regulations and adopted standards, as well as of the legislative changes within the European Union related to sustainable financing, are made. The other focus is on the particularities in the methodology for issuing Climate Financial Instruments. The good practices for issuing sovereign green bonds in the European Union are also being considered and an attempt to outline the challenges to market development is made. The basis of the analysis is the sovereign bonds, issued from Poland, France, Belgium, Ireland and Lithuania.

scholarly journals From a policy bank to a crowding-in bank: The development of the European Investment Bank in the last ten years, as seen through its business model

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
Helen Kavvadia
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
New Economy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Investment Bank ◽  
European Investment Bank ◽  
Central Interest ◽  
Prime Objective ◽  
Policy Bank ◽  
European Investment ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The European Investment Bank (EIB), the primary financial arm of the European Union (EU) has become of central interest in the last ten years. The EIB has been increasingly solicited by the EU to bolster the European economy during the global crisis and support its recovery thereafter. Calls have recently been voiced for the EIB to contribute to the European Green Deal and the post-pandemic economic stimulus. This paper studies the EIB’s role in the European economy through its business model in the period from 2009–2019. The paper’s prime objective is to investigate what enabled the EIB to act in a countercyclical mode and how the EIB met the new economy needs in this turbulent environment.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Regional Efficiency of European Funds in Spain from the Perspective of Renewable Energy Production: The Regional Dimension

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4553
Author(s):  
Paul Mugambi ◽  
Miguel Blanco ◽  
Daniel Ogachi ◽  
Marcos Ferasso ◽  
Lydia Bares
Keyword(s):  
Smart Growth ◽  
Renewable Energies ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Investment Bank ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Spanish Regions ◽  
European Investment

During the 2010–2020 period, the European Union (EU) launched a growth strategy based on three fundamental pillars: smart growth, sustainable growth, and inclusive growth. Aiming to finance the projects related to these growth pillars, the EU used mainly the Rural Development Funds, the Structural Funds, those derived from the R&D Framework Program, the Trans-European Networks, and the European Investment Bank. This research aimed to determine whether the Spanish regions maintain homogeneous efficiency levels by using these resources to improve the levels of environmental quality related to renewable energies. A methodology that is frequently used by researchers in efficiency analyses was chosen, the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The main findings revealed that the efficiency in the use of renewable energies is very uneven among the Spanish regions and these differences are maintained throughout the period analyzed. These results highlighted the need of changes regarding the proposed criteria for allocating European resources to finance the projects presented by each Spanish region.

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