{"id":417508,"date":"2025-01-30T10:51:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T09:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/01\/30\/bei-sempre-piu-banca-della-difesa\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T11:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:58:03","slug":"eib-shifts-towards-defense-1-billion-in-funding-in-2024-aiming-to-double-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/01\/30\/eib-shifts-towards-defense-1-billion-in-funding-in-2024-aiming-to-double-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"EIB shifts towards defense: 1 billion in funding in 2024, aiming to double in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – From a climate bank to a defense bank. The EIB tries not to betray ambitions and goals, but the policy shift of its shareholders\u00a0– the governments <\/a>– inevitably leads to a change in identity. Security and defense<\/strong> funding by the\u00a0European Investment Bank\u00a0“in 2024 doubled to \u20ac1 billion, with a further doubling planned\u00a0for 2025<\/strong>,” bringing the contribution for the sector to two billion. The group’s activity report certifies a change of pace.<\/p>\n

“T<\/strong>he EIB Group has significantly expanded its eligible investments in dual-use projects,<\/strong>” which now include border protection, military mobility, de-mining and de-contamination, space, cybersecurity, anti-jamming equipment (radio communication disturbing activity), seabed and critical infrastructure protection, research and development, and drones, the lending institution said in its annual activity report.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The EIB cites concrete examples, including financing\u00a0dual-use satellites in Poland, port upgrades to meet the needs of NATO ships in Denmark, and investments by the European Investment Fund (EIF)<\/a> in dedicated private investment funds.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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EIB president Nadia Calvi\u00f1o [Brussels, January 30, 2025]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“We have made ourselves ready to support EU priorities in this new political mandate<\/strong>,” said EIB president Nadia Calvi\u00f1o,<\/strong> presenting the annual results. How the European Investment Bank is working, therefore, is not surprising: it is\u00a0following up on the political mandate that includes a renewed and increased focus on defense in its agenda.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sustainability, of course, is still present. In the European legislature that just started, there is still space for the Green Deal as in the one that ended last May. “Nearly 60% of the total financing supported the green transition, climate action, and environmental sustainability,<\/strong>” according to the report, which\u00a0means to reassure about intentions to “maintain a 60% green finance target” also\u00a0in 2025, a year in which European security and defense industry remains a priority\u00a0for the Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The European Investment Bank has already doubled investment for the sector and intends to double it again without betraying the ‘green’ ambition: for the year, it wants to maintain 60 percent funding for sustainability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":417501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705,25727],"tags":[27336,27359,27013,29794,25745,25886],"class_list":["post-417508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-in-the-spotlight","tag-eib-en","tag-european-bank-for-investment-en","tag-finanza-verde-en","tag-safety-en","tag-sustainability-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417531,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417508\/revisions\/417531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}