EIB plans bond issue to support long-term financing

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will before the end of this year issue eu ro 800 million worth of bonds in Poland, under a special program aimed at ra ising money to finance domestic companies seeking zloty loans. Commenting on the issue, deputy president of the EIB, Wolfgang Roth, said that the program would boost the bank's capacity for the long-term financing of projects in P oland. Agent for the EIB program is Bank Handlowy, and among the other entit ies authorized to handle the bond issue are BRE Bank, Deutsche Bank and Peka o S.A.. To date, the EIB has granted loans totalling euro 4.1 billion in Pol and, the highest amount among all the European Union (EU) candidate countrie s. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B5) P.J.