EIB East Building: A building for the future

The European Investment Bank’s activities have grown substantially during its fifty years of existence. At the end of 2007, the EIB Group employed 1,590 permanent staff members who handle the ever-increasing demand for funding in the 27 EU Member States and 173 partner countries. The EIB’s existing building, where the Bank took up residency in 1980, was designed to accommodate a maximum of 800 people. The building was extended in the early 1990s to make room for 300 additional staff members, but the EIB has continued to grow in line with an expanding EU.