Italian President Napolitano welcomes Hoyer and Scannapieco

The EIB President Werner Hoyer, accompanied by Vice president Dario Scannapieco, met the President of the Republic of Italy Giorgio Napolitano and the Italian Prime minister Mario Monti during an official visit to Rome on Monday. President Hoyer also presented EIB results for 2011 in Italy during a press conference in EIB Rome’s office.

Giovanni Tria, Italy’s Minister of Finance and the Economy, met with the President of the EIB, Werner Hoyer, and EIB Vice-President Dario Scannapieco, at the EIB’s Luxembourg headquarters earlier today.

The EIB Group is upgrading its independent Complaint Mechanism policy, following an external review and alignment with best practices of peer institutions. The proposed policy, submitted for a public consultation, foresees a more efficient handling of complaints, enhanced use of the Dispute Resolution mechanism to solve conflicts between project promoters and affected people, and other improvements. The draft policy focuses on alleged environmental and social impacts of the projects we finance and access to information about them, as part of our commitment to transparency, integrity and accountability.