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BERICHT (2025/2213(INI))

Über die Finanztätigkeit der Europäischen Investitionsbank-Gruppe – Jahresbericht 2025

A-10-2026-0170

Haushaltsausschuss · Rapporteur: Joachim Streit

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This resolution assesses the European Investment Bank Group's 2025 activities, welcoming its record investment and alignment with EU priorities, while calling for more support for competitiveness, defence, SMEs, and transparency. It urges the EIB to increase financing for innovation, energy security, critical raw materials, and defence, while maintaining its AAA rating and ensuring accountability. It also calls for enhanced parliamentary oversight, improved project transparency, and stronger human rights and social standards.

Key points

  1. Welcomes the EIB's record investment of EUR 100 billion in 2025 and its strategic roadmap for 2024-2027 aligned with EU priorities.
  2. Calls for higher investment in competitiveness, SMEs, start-ups, and scaling up innovative companies, while maintaining a balanced portfolio.
  3. Stresses the need to preserve the EIB's AAA credit rating, especially as it expands defence activities.
  4. Calls for the EIB to support RRF project continuity and develop innovative financial instruments to mobilise private savings.
  5. Welcomes the TechEU programme and calls for prioritising investments in critical technologies, with increased funding for SMEs and start-ups.
  6. Notes that almost 60% of EIB financing in 2025 went to the low-carbon transition and calls for continued climate investments.
  7. Calls for increased EIB financing for SMEs, simplified procedures, and improved access to finance for small beneficiaries.
  8. Calls for more EIB investment in energy security and critical raw materials to reduce strategic dependencies.
  9. Supports the EIB's defence action plan and calls for further adaptation of lending practices to the defence industry.
  10. Calls for enhanced transparency, accountability, and parliamentary oversight of EIB operations, including publication of project details.
  11. Calls for strengthened human rights policies, independent impact assessments, and diversity targets, including 40% women in management by end of 2026.

Who is affected

  • The European Investment Bank Group, including the EIB and the European Investment Fund, is called on to adjust its lending priorities and procedures.
  • Small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups in the EU are targeted for increased financing and simplified access to funds.
  • The defence industry in Europe may benefit from expanded EIB lending, subject to maintaining the AAA rating.
  • Civil society and local communities in non-EU countries are to be involved in Global Gateway projects.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 100 billion total EIB investment in 2025, compared to EUR 89 billion in 2024.
  • 290% gearing ratio.
  • Over 50% of annual investments allocated to the green transition.
  • EUR 250 billion mobilised under the TechEU programme.
  • Almost 60% of EIB financing in 2025 directed to low-carbon transition.
  • EUR 16 billion in financing for small businesses and start-ups in 2025.
  • EUR 33 billion for energy security, EUR 108 billion total investment, EUR 11 billion for renewables in 2025.
  • EUR 4 billion additional defence financing, close to 5% of total EIB investments in the EU.

Legal basis: Articles 2 and 3 of the Treaty on European Union; Articles 15, 126, 174, 175, 177, 208, 209, 271, 308 and 309 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Protocol No 5; Articles 41-43 of the Euratom Treaty.