Slovenia Got EUR 393M in EIB Loans in 2006
The European Central Bank (EIB) provided EUR 393m in loans to Slovenia in 2006, which is up 0.3% over last year and represents 1% of all loans to EU member states that year. The data was released by the bank in Brussels on Thursday.
The data shows Slovenia got a total of EUR 1.191bn in EIB loans in the past five years, or 0.6 percent of the total provided to EU member states.
The lion's share of this year's loan (EUR 300m) went to the national motorway company DARS for the construction of five new motorway sections.
The country's largest commercial bank, Nova Ljubljanska banka, borrowed EUR 50m for the financing of small- and medium-sized companies, while a further EUR 43m went to power company Holding Slovenske elektrarne for the construction and management of new hydroelectric power plants on the lower Sava, i.e. Blanca and Krsko.
In 2006, the EIB provided a total of EUR 39.85bn in loans to all EU member states, of which EUR 4.963bn went to the ten newcomers of 2004. Most of this was allocated for Poland (EUR 2.031bn), Hungary (EUR 1.160bn) and the Czech Republic (EUR 959m), followed by Slovenia.
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