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"Madam President, Commissioner, Mr Maystadt, I want to begin by thanking Mrs van den Burg for the sterling work she has done.
There is also cause, I think, for sincerely commending the EIB and Mr Maystadt for the way in which the dialogue between the European Parliament and the EIB has developed in recent years. From having been, as Mr Sjöstedt pointed out, a fairly closed institution, the bank has since opened itself up to dialogue and the exchange of opinions. My first coming into contact with the EIB a number of years ago was due to the fact that independent organisations complained about the EIB’s lack of transparency and its failure to appreciate the need to contribute significantly to the EU’s efforts to devise a policy in favour of a sustainable environment. Crucial progress has been made within both these important areas. As we all know, nothing is so good, however, that it cannot be improved, and that applies too to access to information in several languages.
Madam President, the rapporteur’s ambition has been further to emphasise the EIB’s overarching role in macro-economic and financial terms and in terms of political strategy. I share that approach in principle, but I would at the same time warn against we in Parliament’s expressing too many wishes, legitimate enough in themselves but meaning that we cease to focus upon the EIB’s main tasks, namely those of promoting regional development, supporting forward-looking technology, taking account of the environment and concentrating on the candidate countries and what are termed the partner countries. As you can hear, the EIB now already has more than enough on its plate. I would emphasise, however, that the EIB’s efforts in the Balkan countries, which are part of its remit, deserve increased attention. Where supervision of the EIB is concerned, we would repeat our proposal that the issues be addressed at the forthcoming intergovernmental conference.
Finally, I should like to ask Mr Maystadt how he views our desire for a panel of experts to be set up, of the type to be found within the World Bank. I know that there is a certain scepticism within the EIB where the view is that the EIB cannot be compared with the World Bank and that, moreover, the EU has the institution of the Ombudsman. What does the EIB intend to do to disseminate further knowledge concerning the global loans, that is to say the loans to small enterprises?"@en1
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