On 15 June 2018, the Administrative Council of the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) approved 11 new lending projects. In particular, one of the projects is a €7 million loan to Per Micro Spa to part-finance sub-projects within two microcredit products: 1) business lending to support microenterprises in the purchase of equipment and goods, for their start-up or for the development of their businesses and 2) family loans to assist vulnerable groups in responding to urgent and temporary financial needs in the domain of health, housing and education. Final beneficiaries will be aspiring entrepreneurs, vulnerable groups and especially migrants and refugees, which have little or no access to the standard banking system.
Newsletter - July 2017
- Mission to Serbia and the transit zones in Hungary, and synergies with CoE standard-setting bodies
- PACE: Sweden’s Justice and Migration Minister and Mayor of Athens take part in the Migration Day debate
- Commissioner: Issue paper on family reunification, visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina and PACE debate
- Commissioner: Issue paper on family reunification, visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina and PACE debate
- CPT visited Italy to examine the situation of persons in immigration detention
- Conference on smuggling of migrants
- Two rulings in deportation cases
- Italy contributes € 3 million to the CEB’s Migrant and Refugee Fund
- The linguistic integration of adult migrants: lessons from research
- Administrative detention of migrants
- Migrants and Disaster Risk Reduction