Minister Michael McGrath confirms Ireland’s commitment to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s capital increase.

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An orange-filled Westminster Chapel!

Thank you Karel van Oosterom, Ambassador of Netherlands Embassy 🇬🇧, for inviting us to celebrate King’s Day, the Dutch national day (a couple of days ahead of the festivities in The Netherlands)!

And below with the ‘Dutch’ The EBRD team!

We’re delighted to announce our Arvid Arvid Tuerkner, currently MD Türkiye, has been appointed to the position of Managing Director, Ukraine and Moldova. Arvid will take up his new role on 1 May 2024, based in the Warsaw. Our warmest congratulations to Arvid!

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Congrats Arvid Tuerkner with your appointment as The EBRD’s MD for Ukraine & Moldova!

The appointment reflects the importance the EBRD attaches to its relationship with #Ukraine , which stretches back over three decades and has only intensified since the start of the full-scale war!

Good to be back in the Big 🍏 (the city I called home for 3 years in the nineties)!

Representing The EBRD at Columbia | SIPA’s SIRI Decision makers Roundtable discussion on Blended Finance tomorrow!

Looking forward to contributing to next Wednesday’s panel discussion about Türkiye’s strategic role in world energy during the 26th 26th World Energy Congress of the World Energy Council in Rotterdam!

Keynote by Minister Alparslan Bayraktar and moderated by our good friend Kıvanç Zaimler!

For all Dutch-speaking followers:
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Our 10 edition of The EBRD in Ukraine Monthly is out! This month, our Odile Renaud-Basso delivered a lecture at the
LSE European Institute on the EBRD's vision for helping Ukraine. Our
Jurgen Rigterink visited Kyiv, reaffirming our commitment to support the country's real economy.

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Our Jurgen Rigterink is speaking to Bloomberg HT’s Açıl Sezen on The EBRD’s recent earthquake investments.

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Impressed by my 1st meeting w/ the new Governor of CentralBankofTürkiye Fatih Karahan.

We discussed Türkiye’s monetary policy, its fight to contain inflation, financial stability risks and much more!

The EBRD remains committed to Turkiye, a country we invested > €2.5 billion in 2023!

The loan will help finance the capex support shopping centres in affected cities and help preserve the economic vitality of the region. With support from the EU EU Neighbourhood & Enlargement 🇪🇺.
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Our support to Türkiye's earthquake-hit region continues. We're pleased to be providing a senior loan of €30 million to Kahramanmaraş Piazza shopping center, a special purpose vehicle that is fully owned by Rönesans Gayrimenkul.

Always a pleasure!

Discussed w/ Minister of Treasury & Finance Mehmet Simsek Turkiye’s current macroeconomic outlook, monetary policy & inflation targets.

And signed a €500m Municipal Infrastructure Capex Financing MoU as part of The EBRD’s Earthquake Response Programme.

Always a pleasure!

Discussed w/ Minister of Treasury & Finance Mehmet Simsek Turkiye’s current macroeconomic outlook, monetary policy & inflation targets.

And signed a €500m Municipal Infrastructure Capex Financing MoU as part of The EBRD’s Earthquake Response Programme.

Our Jurgen Rigterink met Mehmet Simsek, Türkiye’s Minister of Treasury and Finance T.C. Hazine ve Maliye Bakanlığı in Ankara today.

In addition to discussing the record year the The EBRD had in the country, they signed an MOU focusing on infrastructure investments for the earthquake-hit cities.

Deprem yaralarını sarmak önceliğimizdir.

Bütçedeki tüm imkanlarımızı bu doğrultuda seferber ettik.

Deprem bölgesinde kullanılmak üzere uluslararası kuruluşlardan uygun maliyetli finansman desteklerini de devreye alıyoruz.

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Our First VP Jurgen Rigterink continued his Türkiye visit with a stop at the temporary living space in Hatay. Run by Needs Map İhtiyaç Haritası / NeedsMap.coop, the space provides shelter to those in need. Housing remains a key issue in the badly-hit city.

An emotional day, full of contrasts:

From opening a solar project w/ Gaziantep Mayor Fatma Şahin & signing the Piazza Shopping Centre project w/ Rönesans Holding’ to seeing the earthquake destruction in Hatay & visiting Needs Map’s Container City …

Our Jurgen Rigterink is starting his Türkiye visit by attending an The EBRD-supported solar power plant in Gaziantep, with the city’s Mayor, Fatma Şahin, also in attendance.