Vice-President Czerwińska’s areas of oversight include financing of science, education, innovation and the digital economy, InvestEU, implementation of three lines of defence (3LoD), financing operations in Croatia, Hungary, Poland, the Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia and Ukraine), Central Asia, China and Mongolia, relations with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
Poland: EIB backs first Polish satellite programme with loan to Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego
The European Investment Bank (EIB) announced backing today for the development and launch of two Earth observation satellites that will provide high-resolution imagery for civilian and defence applications in Poland. The EIB is lending €300 million to Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK) for the project to support the European space industry with the latest technology in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. It comes after the EIB’s Board of Directors approved the EIB Group’s new Security and Defence Industry Action Plan which is intended to step up investments in the sector.