Investment from EIB up 43% in 2025 to hit new record

European Investment Bank (EIB) financing reached €3Bn in Portugal – a new record with around seven in every €10 euros of the group’s total funding went to green transition projects.

It also reflected support for housing and the reconstruction of schools, but also the financing of the high-speed line. This amount should mobilize around 12 billion in investments, around 4% of GDP, which makes Portugal the largest beneficiary of EIB financing as a percentage of GDP.

2025 “was an extraordinary year for the EIB Group’s activity in Portugal”, said Nadia Calviño. “We invested €3Bn euros, including record financing aimed at supporting housing, green projects, the Porto-Lisbon high-speed railway line and innovation”, said the president of the EIB Group – made up of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Investment Fund (EIF).

When Portugal joined the European Union 40 years ago, the EIB was already here”, recalled Nadia Calviño, recalling some of the flagship projects that the bank helped finance in Portugal, such as the Vasco da Gama Bridge, three Portuguese unicorns and the SBE Nova Campus in Carcavelos.

This growth in EIB activity last year is justified by the €750 million euros in support for housing – an “amount that constitutes a record for the EIB Group in Portugal”. At issue is support for the national programme for affordable housing (Lease Support Programme), which includes the construction and renovation of around 12 thousand homes.