The European Investment Bank spends nearly EUR 10 billion outside Europe each year.

Omissions

• The €10 billion figure is an annual target ceiling ('up to €10 billion') announced by the EIB for 2025–2027, while the actual 2025 volume of commitments outside the EU was €9 billion — which nonetheless fits the description 'nearly €10 billion'.
• The EIB 'finances' or 'commits' money outside the EU; it does not 'spend' it in a budgetary sense. Most operations are loans that are repaid with interest, so describing them as 'dépenses' (expenditure) overstates the net cost to Europe.
• Outside-EU financing is part of the EIB's statutory mandate and supports EU external policy (Global Gateway), and represents roughly 9% of the Group's total 2025 financing of €100 billion.
• The €9 billion/€10 billion magnitude reflects recent years (2025 actual and the 2025–2027 target); in earlier years volumes were lower (e.g. about €7.6 billion outside the EU around 2019), so 'each year' is only approximately accurate.

Sources

• PrimaryEIB Group Activity Report 2025 (French version) — European Investment BankL'année dernière, la BEI a engagé 9 milliards d'euros dans des projets en dehors de l'UE et ainsi soutenu le rayonnement mondial de l'Europe en tant que [banque de l'UE] (last year, the EIB committed €9 billion in projects outside the EU).
• PrimaryEIB press release — 'EIB Group to boost investments outside EU to up to €10 billion annually'From 2025 to 2027, the EIB Group will provide up to €10 billion in annual financing [outside the EU], which will include increased technical assistance.
• PrimaryEIB Group in numbers — key figures page, European Investment BankThe EIB Group also deployed more than €9 billion for its Global [operations / outside the EU]... [annual EIB financing outside the EU shown in the key figures].