ZAGREB – The European Funding Financial institution (EIB) will help tasks in Croatia valued at over one billion euros in 2024, which is a document, it was highlighted on Friday after the assembly between Finance Minister Marko Primorac and EIB Group President Nadia Calviño.
Calviño arrived for her first official go to to Croatia, and held a gathering on the Ministry of Finance with Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Marko Primorac, who emphasised the “very profitable and productive” cooperation between Croatia and the EIB. Already within the present a part of this 12 months, help agreements for tasks value 630 million euros have been signed, and by the tip of 2024, this could develop by one other 400 million euros, making the whole quantity a couple of billion euros, which is a document, Primorac identified.
“The ambition and objective of the Authorities within the third consecutive mandate is to give attention to digitization, decarbonization, schooling, and demographics as key points, and in these segments we see the European Funding Financial institution as a big associate,” said Primorac, noting that he had collaborated intensively with Calviño beforehand, when she was the finance minister and deputy prime minister of the Spanish authorities.
Primorac additionally highlighted some tasks supported by the EIB and mentioned with Calviño, such because the Korlat solar energy plant being constructed by HEP, which is necessary when it comes to inexperienced transition. The tasks supported by the EIB prolong into many different sectors, together with the railway, which particularly refers back to the talked about 400 million euros EIB mortgage.
In December final 12 months, the EIB authorised a framework mortgage of 900 million euros to Croatia, which is meant to finance and/or co-finance tasks to enhance railway infrastructure and passenger transport. The financing settlement was signed in January 2024 and pertains to a mortgage of 400 million euros, whereas the remaining mortgage quantity of 500 million euros would be the topic of subsequent agreements. (November 8, 2024)
