The Subcommittee on Human Rights will discuss the cooperative financing mechanism agreement reached between the European Defence Agency and the European Investment Bank, with EIB Vice-President Kris Peeters, on 12 July. Since the current rules do not allow the EIB to finance purely military projects or infrastructure, the agreement has the same ambition as the European Development Fund (EDF) and the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO).
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