President Hoyer and the EIB in Washington DC

An EIB delegation led by President Werner Hoyer, with the participation of Vice-Presidents Ambroise Fayolle and Thomas Östros, visited Washington DC on 25 and 26 August for high-level meetings with the US Administration, multilateral development institutions and leading think tanks on climate action and the forthcoming COP27 (6-18 November in Egypt), energy transition, Ukraine’s reconstruction and the global economic outlook as a result of the war in Ukraine.

Arsène Koffi: Hope after war

Arsène Koffi was born on Christmas Day, December 25, 1990, in Sakassou, capital of the Baule kingdom in central Côte d'Ivoire.
The young man spent part of his childhood and adolescence with his grandparents. "My grandmother didn't have any grandchildren with her, so she asked me to come and help her," he says.
When he wasn't at school, Arsène did all the chores his grandmother asked him to do: shopping, household work, and working in the fields…