Posted on 24 February 2020
On the occasion of the signing ceremony of a new protocol between the Italian Government and the European Investment Bank in Rome on the 19th of February, the HAEU provided the original archival document of the first contract signed by the European Investment Bank in Italy.
The first contract by the EIB in Italy was signed on the 21st of April 1959 and concerned the projects Mercure/SME, Sincat and Celene. The document bearing the original signatures of the EIB president P. Campilli and the vice-president of the Cassa per le opera straordinarie di pubblico interesse nell’Italia Meridionale (Cassa per Il Mezzogiorno) R. Gullo was deposited by the EIB at the HAEU back in 2005.
HAEU Director Dieter Schlenker hand carried the document, which left the secure archival storage in Florence for the first time, and presented to this special ceremony at Palazzo Chigi in Rome the document to Italian Prime Minister Conte.
The Protocol of Understanding was signed by the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, the EIB President Werner Hoyer and Vice-President Dario Scannapieco to support the activity of InvestItalia, dedicated to the public and private investments.
The EIB is the financial institution of the European Union created by the Treaty of Rome (1958) to contribute to regional development and economic cohesion. Its historical archives were deposited at the HAEU under the terms of a convention signed on the 1st of July 2005 with the then EIB vice-president Gerlando Genuardi.
Click here to read the EIB press release and here to watch the signing ceremony.