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Ljubljana – On the European Funding Financial institution (EIB), they see nice potential for additional investments in Slovenia, mentioned the financial institution’s president Nadia Calvino after assembly with Slovenian Finance Minister Klemen Boštjančič. The vary of Slovenian initiatives into consideration is in depth and consists of areas akin to transport and power infrastructure and help for companies, she emphasised.
“Slovenia has a substantial variety of initiatives into consideration that transcend transport and power infrastructure and embrace help for hundreds of small and medium-sized enterprises, startups, and reasonably priced housing,” mentioned Calvino.
In dialogue with Boštjančič, they highlighted the significance of specializing in local weather motion, power independence, digitalization, regional improvement, capital market improvement, and reasonably priced housing.
Calvino’s go to confirms the robust partnership between the EIB and Slovenia, Minister Boštjančič is satisfied.
Cooperation with the EIB has enabled Slovenian establishments to hold out initiatives that, based on the minister, wouldn’t have been potential with out the monetary and technical sources of the group, akin to within the discipline of transport infrastructure modernization. EIB funds had been additionally indispensable for the event of power infrastructure, he mentioned.
Boštjančič and Calvino additionally touched on the mission of the second block of the Krško nuclear energy plant Jek 2, the minister confirmed. “However at a reasonably excessive degree, as a result of, as you understand, the mission is in a sure section. So we’re actually not but discussing any concrete numbers, however we did talk about the experiences we’ve got in talks with different potential buyers,” he mentioned.
For Calvino, who took over the management of the EIB initially of this 12 months, that is her first go to to Slovenia. The go to is a part of the EIB president’s tour of EU member states. (7 November)
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