Here's my #1week1minute🎥 ✔️Updated #ECOFIN Ministers on Munich Security Conference and European Investment Bank Investment Report ✔️Good exchanges on digital, innovation, social & cohesion infrastructure with European Commission Henna Virkkunen Raffaele Fitto Roxana Mînzatu Ekaterina Zaharieva ✔️2024 results in 🇬🇷🇪🇸

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

Slava Ukraini 🇪🇺🇺🇦

Here’s my #1week1minute🎥 ✔️Important #EUCO, where EU leaders welcomed European Investment Bank Group's proposal to step up support for 🇪🇺 security & defence capabilities ✔️#EIBforum 🇱🇺 to foster win-win partnerships & launch projects ✔️ Sustainability Bond extension to gender equality #IWD2025

At its current pace, gender parity could take 134 years. That's why this #IWD2025, the theme is 'Accelerate Action'—let’s break systemic barriers & biases. 🎥 Watch Nadia Calviño & Yuriko Backes highlight the importance of inclusion, equal opportunities & lasting change.

The business case for closing the gender gap is clear. Supporting women improves economic performance and builds stable, stronger societies. You can read my #LinkedIn article on why investing in gender equality pays off ⤵️ #IWD2025 linkedin.com/pulse/closing-…

Proud to support the European Investment Bank Group #ZeroDiscrimination discussion and share the strong engagement of our staff for ⚧️ Gender equality 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTI rights 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼 Ethnic diversity ♿️ Disability inclusion Zero tolerance for discrimination. Unity and diversity make us stronger. #Europe🇪🇺

My #1week1minute📽️ ✔️1st issuance under EU Green Bond Standard & sustainability bonds with gender investments ✔️with Enrico Letta on competitiveness ✔️EU-Central Asia Summit ✔️projects in 🇪🇺🇲🇪🇺🇦 ✔️with National Promotional Banks on security & defence ✔️European Investment Bank Advisory report

👋Hello from Washington DC! 🇪🇺Europe comes to the IMF & WorldBank #SpringMeetings with a loud and clear message: we are a beacon of confidence, clarity, and stability. The European Investment Bank is playing its role, financing investments for a better future. Our partners can count on us.

Here’s my #1week1minute📽️ ✔️Asian Development Bank Annual Meetings ✔️ Good discussions with AIIB ✔️ Good meeting with Social Economy EU ✔️ European Parliament support for the European Investment Bank Group's financial activities and role ✔️ New projects in 🇱🇹🇬🇷🇪🇸 and across the EU ✔️ #EuropeDay🇪🇺

Thank you for insightful & inspiring exchange at European Investment Bank HQ, dear Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala @WTO! Cooperation is the name of the game to build trust & ensure that trade is a force for good in the world You can count on us to foster #trade as powerful driver of development, prosperity & stability.

A tribute to the kind of great news reporting that we need more than ever … The paperback is out! Charles Wheeler: Witness to the 20th Century. 📣 Thanks Christiane Amanpour for the beautiful foreword, John Simpson Katya Adler Lindsey Hilsum John Humphrys For your stories ❤️

Great exchange with colleagues from the European Investment Bank Global Directorate, led by Andrew McDowell. Proud and inspired by their passion & commitment to making projects happen and supporting our European values around the world. Together, we are #MakingADifference 🌍🇪🇺 #DreamTeam💪🏼❤️🧠

Phew - what a week . An excellent week in fact . Breakneck speed from Lisbon to Brussels with launch of phase 2 of the climate bank roadmap and signing a deal for local vaccination hubs in Africa. A pleasure working with the team at European Investment Bank and Nadia Calviño. Next stop #WBGMeetings

Wonderful that the #CharlesWheelerAward goes to Steve Rosenberg . And so happy to award it to him last night with my sister Marina. Steve’s an outstanding, brave, modest journalist - calm and deeply committed to telling the story. If Charles were here he’d approve! Journalists' Charity 🙏

I’m honoured to have received the 2025 Charles Wheeler award in memory of one of the BBC’s greatest foreign correspondents. Thank you to BJR Journalists' Charity University of Westminster and to Shirin and Marina Wheeler. Shirin Wheeler

Very much looking forward to chatting with you both - Tony Connelly Katya Adler Europe editors as my father was - about being a journalist in very different times but where certain values endure. At Waterstones Brussels tomorrow.

John Osman - a dear man . And a superlative journalist. Rest well .

The SMI yesterday convened Heads of State & Government, including our Founder His Majesty King Charles III, Presidents of MDBs & DFIs, and global CEOs with one mission: Scale up private capital into emerging & developing economies – at speed and at scale The Royal Family

Great news !