Editing European Investment Bank (section)

=== Development ===
The EIB Group finances sustainable projects and supports investments that reduce poverty and inequality aims with the aim of contributing to stable growth within the Member States of the European Union, emerging markets and developing countries.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Clifton|first1=Judith|last2=Díaz-Fuentes|first2=Daniel|last3=Gómez|first3=Ana Lara|date=2018|title=The European Investment Bank: Development, Integration, Investment?|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jcms.12614|journal=JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies|language=en|volume=56|issue=4|pages=733–750|doi=10.1111/jcms.12614|s2cid=158639004|issn=1468-5965}}</ref> Since 2010 the EIB financing outside the European Union reached €69.6 billion. In 2020 the European Investment Bank Group has offered loans to more than 100 countries, financed vaccines, diagnostics and treatments and invested €1.7 billion to help the [[Balkans#Western Balkans|Western Balkan countries]] recover from the COVID-19 pandemic<ref>{{Cite web|title=The EIB and development|url=https://www.eib.org/en/about/priorities/development/index.htm|access-date=2021-04-28|website=EIB.org|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=EIB support for development Overview 2020|url=https://www.eib.org/en/publications/eib-support-for-development-overview-2020|access-date=2021-04-28|date=3 July 2020|publisher=European Investment Bank |language=en}}</ref> It also expanded its partnership with the [[United Nations Development Programme]] and increased cooperation with the Association of European Development Finance Institutions to assist impacted businesses in developing countries, providing financing for €280 million partnered with the [[World Health Organization]] to finance health care projects in 10 African countries.<ref>{{Cite web|last=EPIC|title=EDFI {{!}} European Development Finance Institutions|url=https://www.edfi.eu/|access-date=2021-04-28|website=EDFI|language=en-US}}</ref>