Vice-President Pavlova's areas of oversight include financing economic and social cohesion, transport financing, Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) related to Cohesion and External Lending Mandate (ELM), advisory, Joint Assistance to Support Projects in European Regions (JASPERS) and European Investment Advisory Hub (EIAH), Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas (JESSICA), IT and data governance, relations with the Vienna Initiative, strategy for the Danube region and financing operations in Bulgaria, Croatia (jointly with Vice-President Scannapieco leading), Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Central Asia.
Save the Aral Sea
The Aral Sea is one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in the history of the modern world. The disaster directly affects more than 33 million people living in the Aral Sea basin with a devastating effect on the local environment and economy alike. It is a grave situation, but not yet irreparable, and the EIB – together with other EU institutions, international financial institutions (IFIs) and the Government of Uzbekistan – has been drafting a set of comprehensive measures to help save the Aral Sea from extinction.