The President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and former Spanish Vice-President Nadia Calviño predicted on Monday at the Forum Europa in Brussels that activity and lending to the defence and security industry will increase in the second half of the year with the EIB's regulatory changes to facilitate lending to this sector.
Calviño took part in an event organised by New Economy Forum in the EU capital, where she referred to the approval earlier this month by the EIB's Board of Directors of the action plan to step up support for the European security and defence industry.