(AGENPARL) – ven 10 giugno 2022 PRESS RELEASE
2022-267-EN
10 June 2022
EIB President Hoyer pledges support for Bulgarian economy, meets President Radev and Prime Minister Petkov
EIB President Hoyer met with Bulgarian President Radev and Prime Minister Petkov to discuss new investments for sustainable transport, energy security and SMEs.
The EIB President opened the Green Deal conference in Sofia.
The EIB Group provided €948 million in financing in 2021 for SMEs, urban development and innovation in Bulgaria.
European Investment Bank (EIB) President Werner Hoyer and Vice-President Lilyana Pavlova met with Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development Grozdan Karadzhov in Sofia to discuss how the EIB Group can support Bulgaria’s economy, especially in the areas of the green transition, transport, energy, regional cohesion and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
EIB President Werner Hoyer commented: “It is a great pleasure to meet President Radev and Prime Minister Petkov in Sofia today. In 2021 — thanks to the European Guarantee Fund that the EIB Group set up with Bulgaria and other Member States — we more than doubled our activities compared to 2020. Together with our Bulgarian partners, we supported businesses suffering from the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, financed key infrastructure projects that improve people’s lives and provided advisory services that enable more projects to access finance and create jobs. Going forward, we will work closely with our public and private sector partners to accelerate support for the green transition and regional cohesion of Bulgaria, two objectives that go hand in hand.”
Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said: “…”
EIB Group results in Bulgaria for 2021