All EU Member States submitted the fourth update to their stability (for Euro area countries) or convergence (for the three outside the euro area countries) programmes by early 2003. The growth projections for 2003 were scaled down from the third updates as a consequence of the economic outlook...

This document was requested by the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament and attempts to reply to a series of questions posed by the Group on possible changes to the legal instruments binding the EIB's activities in the context of a forthcoming Inter-Governmental Conference. The layout...