Over the next three years, the European Investment Bank will make more than €75 billion available to help the European Commission attract private capital for power grids, bank financing for the energy sector, small nuclear reactors, and energy efficiency technologies.
Brussels launches new clean energy investment strategy with €75 billion help from the EIB
Tuesday, 10 March 2026RSS
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The Recovery and Resilience Plan (Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência) is Portugal's national programme under the EU's NextGenerationEU to fund reforms and investments after COVID‑19; the plan includes roughly €16.6 billion in grants plus about €2.7 billion in loans approved in 2021. Payments are tied to specific milestones and targets — which the government said it is politically committed to meet — so missed milestones can delay projects and funding that affect public works, contractors and local services.
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