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Priorities
We work to promote sustainable growth and job creation by supporting the following action areas:
- Small and medium sized enterprises: the creators of 80% of new jobs
- Regional development: to address economic and social imbalances between regions
- Environmental sustainability: including both climate action and investment in the urban and natural environment
- Knowledge economy: promoting skills and innovation at every level
- Trans-European Networks: linking Europe’s infrastructure, principally in transport
- Energy: building competitive and secure supply
Countries
European Union Member States receive about 90% of our financing, but we also work with more than 150 other partner countries in support of EU external assistance policy.
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Helping a Baltic Sea wind-farm power 340,000 German homes
Germany has ambitious plans to boost green-electricity production. To help, we are funding major off-shore wind farms in the Baltic Sea.










