The European Investment Bank has a balance sheet total of around EUR 600 billion.

Omissions

• The most recent official figure (EIB Group, year-end 2025) puts the balance sheet total at EUR 550,838 million (≈ EUR 551 billion), not 'around EUR 600 billion' — an overstatement of roughly 9%.
• The EIB's own Financial Report 2025 states that the Bank's lending signatures in 2025 amounted to EUR 86 billion, not the 'record EUR 100 billion in financing' also mentioned in the speech; the EUR 100 billion figure could not be verified in the sources found.
• The Financial Report 2024 (published 7 May 2025, i.e. knowable before the session) also shows financing signatures of EUR 76.6 billion for 2024; neither the 2024 nor the 2025 reports support a balance sheet total near EUR 600 billion.

Sources

• PrimaryEIB Group: key statutory figures (European Investment Bank official website)EIB Group: key statutory figures — 'Own funds, 86 326 ; Balance sheet total, 550 838 ; Net profit for year, 2 725 ; Subscribed capital, 248 796 ; of which called up, 22 191. Activity in 2025, in € million.' (Balance sheet total = EUR 550,838 million ≈ EUR 550.8 billion)
• PrimaryEIB Financial Report 2025 (European Investment Bank)This report includes the 2025 financial statements and audit reports for the EIB and the EIB Group. 'In 2025, the Bank's lending signatures amounted to €86 billion.'
• PrimaryEIB Financial Report 2024 (European Investment Bank, PDF)In 2024, new financing signed by the Bank amounted to EUR 76.6 billion; total disbursements reached EUR 58.8 billion in 2024.