The European Investment Bank (EIB) is to give Tunisia a 170-million-euro loan to support the Tunisian private sector and for development projects .
The bank will also give the North African nation another 70 million euros for the educational sector, its Vice President, Philippe de Fontaine Vive, has announced.
The part of the loan that will go to the private sector will finance 500 projects, said Mr. Vive, adding that the gesture is an affirmation by that bank that 2014 is for Tunisia a year dedicated to investments, after the stabilisation of the political situation and the determination of the dates for the general elections.