Issue of the first borrowing operation in eurco, a new borrowing unit. According to the bank, “the eurco provides investors with a new instrument for investing their savings that spreads their risk between all the currencies of the EEC according to an appropriate weighting, which should thereby offer greater stability in the value of their investments.”

Financing of the original manufacturing facilities of the Airbus A300 in Toulouse and St. Nazaire, France. The EIB has been on board every new Airbus developed since the A300.

Opening of the first external office (Rome), apart from the Brussels office.