New EIB archive files are now available for online consultation in the database of the Historical Archives of the European Union.
The 143 new documents pertain to the EIB’s governance and financing activities. They cover 39 investment projects from 1962, 1963 and 1964: 31 projects in Italy, five projects in Greece, two projects in France, and one in Germany and may be consulted in the EIB series Projets financés.
The files also contain documents concerning the EIB’s governance activities, including minutes from the EIB Board of Governors and Board of Directors meetings for 1991. These documents are archived in the Gouvernance series.
Many of these documents show projects that are core to the EIB’s fundamental mission of supporting balanced development across the Union. They illustrate the Bank’s activities concerning the development or improvement of the infrastructure and industrial capacity of member states, especially those in the south of Europe, and shed light on the execution of each project at every stage, from project proposal and project implementation to loan repayment.
The archives contain notes, correspondence and documents related to applications, project appraisals, loan agreements, legal files, project reports, payments and reimbursements, photographs, and more.
The new documents will contribute to increasing knowledge of EIB’s support to the European integration process and facilitate research on EIB’s interactions with other EU institutions.
In addition to the archival holdings of the European Union Institutions, the HAEU collects private papers of key European politicians, high-ranking EU officials and individuals involved in the process of European integration as well as the archives of pro-European movements and other organisations with a European scope. It counts more than 500,000 items (documents, audio-visual material).
The historical archives of the EIB are deposited at the Historical Archives of the EU under a convention signed in July 2005.
The EIB Group (the EIB and the EIF), and the EUI cooperate in the fields of academic research, teaching and training, notably through the EIB Climate Chair launched in 2020 within the EUI’s School of Transnational Governance.
