VOL. XLI

No. 15

13-April-1998

TUNISIA/PALESTINE

EIB Lends $44Mn To Tunisia And $5.5Mn To Palestine

The European Investment Bank (EIB), the development finance arm of theEuropean Union, has advanced a ECU40mn loan ($44mn) to Tunisia for environmentalprotection. The loan will finance a series of sewerage treatment and disposal facilitiesin 19 medium-sized Tunisian towns, the EIB said in a statement released on 31 March. Thefacilities will be built between now and the year 2001 by the National...