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The European Investment Bank is organising its sixth annual "EIB Forum" on 19-20 October 2000 in Bremen on the theme "Regional Development – Making Efficient Use of Financial Resources".
With this year's Forum the EIB is seeking to contribute to a Europe-wide exchange of experience and ideas on regional policy and its financing. With the approaching accession of countries from Central and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean, this issue is becoming ever more important. Indeed, within today's European Union too, new challenges are emerging for regional policy, as the economic restructuring process driven by the European single market, global competition and new technology benefits some regions more than others. Some regions have caught up, but others have fallen behind, while some remain almost unchanged in the ranking. It is consequently all the more essential to learn from each other's experience and to deploy financing resources, be they in the form of grant aid or loans, as effectively as possible.
During the Forum's two day sessions, some 300 specialists from government and political circles, as well as administrative, industrial and banking sectors will tackle the factors for success and failure behind the different performances of regions, both in general and technical discussions. It has become a tradition to close the Forum with a speech by the EIB Governor of the host country: this year Hans Eichel, the German Federal Minister of Finance.
A special highlight of the Forum will be the dinner speech of Günter Grass, last year's Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The EIB Forum 2000 follows two editions – Paris (1999) and London (1998) – discussing changes in the financial sector. Earlier ones – Stockholm (1997) and Madrid (1996) - addressed respectively regional cooperation across the Baltic and the Mediterranean, while the first Forum – Amsterdam (1995) – focused on public-private partnership for financing infrastructure investment.
Highlights of the discussions and speeches will appear in EIB Information n°106, to be issued in November. This publication can be obtained free of charge by sending a request to the Information and Communications Department.
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