Vice-President Mourinho Félix’s areas of oversight include the blue economy, Funding and Treasury, Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), InvestEU (implementation, jointly with Vice-President Czerwińska), the Just Transition Mechanism (on a project level in consultation with sectoral oversights), the Recovery and Resilience Facility, project eligibility, technical and economic assessment, economic research, financing of the migration response, financing operations in Portugal, Spain, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Latin America, Cuba, the Caribbean States and the Community of Latin America and Caribbean States (CELAC). Vice-President Mourinho Félix also oversees relations with rating agencies, national promotional institutions (NPBs), the European Long-Term Investors Association (ELTI), the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Eurostat, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and think tanks.
Romania: The EIB provides €97 million financing to protect the Romanian Black Sea coast from erosion and floods
During the UN Ocean Conference, the European Investment Bank announced €97 million co-financing to support the resilience of Romanian Black Sea coast to erosion and floods. This new investment is allocated under the Structural Programme Loan ‘Romania EU Co-financing for Environment for the programming period 2014-20’.