News from 26-02-2018
Meeting of European Development Banks in Luxembourg
On February 22nd and 23rd the Societé Nationale de Crédit et d'Investissement, Luxembourg hosted the workshop and permanent working group meeting of the Network of European Financial Institutions for SMEs (NEFI) in Luxembourg. The meeting was attended by 15 member institutions.
Beside the regular exchange of views and information the meeting focussed on the preparation of the NEFI High Level Meeting in Budapest in March 2018 at which the participants will discuss the next Multiannual Financial Framework with the EU-Commission and the EIB-Group, in particular the future of centrally managed EU financial instruments, simplification of EU rules governing financial and other instruments, especially in view of facilitating different sources of funding, and the future role of NPBIs, not least under the single EU guarantee fund to be created.