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European Union Investment Bank

EIB

Flags of EIB - Images by Olivier Touzeau, 19 May 2025

Presentation of EIB
Current flags and logos of EIB
- Variant flag - "EIB group"
Former flags of EIB
- Former logos of EIB

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European Union

Presentation of EIB

EIB (website) is the European Union's nonprofit long-term lending institution established in 1958 under the Treaty of Rome. As a "policy-driven bank" whose shareholders are the member states of the EU, the EIB uses its financing operations to bring about European integration and social cohesion.
The EIB Group was formed in 2000, comprising the EIB and the European Investment Fund (EIF), the EU's venture capital arm that provides finances and guarantees for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Esteban Rivera, 8 March 2018

Current flags and logo of EIB

The EIB has adopted in 2023 a new logo (video) which can be seen on their official website [link].

There is a white flag with the logo without text: photo, photo
and a white flag with full logo : photo, photo.

Olivier Touzeau, 19 May 2025

The current logo is explained as follows: "The new EIB logo aligns our identity with institutions such as the European Commission, Council and Parliament. All these institutions share a logo inspired by their buildings and the EU flag. The straight horizontal lines of the new logo represent not just the Bank’s all-glass “East Building,” but also the horizon and the land, or stability, balance and trust. The rising grey line represents progression, dynamism and hope for the future." (source: EIB logo user guide).
"The European Investment Bank logo embodies our role as the EU bank. The logo comprises three different elements: A stylised representation of the EIB headquarters building in Luxembourg, the European Union
flag and the name of the institution." (source: EIB logo).

Picture of a desktop flag: desktop flag: image from this page.

Variant flag - "EIB Group"

2023 "group" logo - Image located by Esteban Rivera, 19 May 2025

Additional variant, adding the word "Group") (original image of the logo located on this page).
Desktop flag on this picture.

Esteban Rivera, 19 May 2025

Former flags of EIB

Former flags of EIB
left, 1999-2012 or later - Image by Ivan Sache, 8 March 2018
right, 2012-23 - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 12 June 2025

The former flag of EIB (photo) is white with the bank's the logo on the left and the name of the institution on the right.

The EIB has decided to modify its visual identity and logo with effect from 1 March 1999, a defining year for EMU with the successful launch of the single currency and over forty years since the EIB commenced its activity in support of the Union's objectives.
The new EIB logo replaces the previous design dating back to 1963, based on a map of Europe and inspired by the symbol of the United Nations. Although modified in 1974, 1980, 1981, 1986, 1990 and 1995 in conjunction, inter alia, with successive enlargements of the Union, the 1963 logo gave no sense of the scale and constant expansion of the project of European integration, underpinned by the Bank. Nor did it convey the EIB's present values: long-term financing, solidity and partnership.

The logo is composed of three vertical elements tracing the form of a square.
The central element is "European blue" in colour: it represents the "project of European integration" and echoes the main symbol of the European Union. The side elements are grey, the dominant colour of the Bank's building; they surround and protect the central element.
The square is the shape generally adopted for bank logos, and therefore underscores the specific role of the EIB among the European institutions and its ties with the financial community. However, in contrast to most symbols in the banking world, the square formed by the new logo is neither complete, closed nor totally symmetrical. This open quality reflects the process of European integration, the very reason for the Bank's existence: while the symbol is irreversible and robust, it is also receptive to the outside world.

This new design was developed with "LANDOR Associates", London, selected after a call for tenders from European companies specialising in the creation of corporate identities. Landor is one of the most well-established firms in this field. Founded in London in 1940, it transferred its head office to San Francisco (USA) in 1941 and now has a worldwide network of 19 branches in 13 countries.
[Press release 1999-013-EN, 26 February 1989]

Esteban Rivera & Ivan Sache, 8 March 2018

2012 logo desktop flag: image from this page.

Esteban Rivera, 19 May 2025

Former logos of EIB

During the several expansions of the European Union, the logo has then varied according to new Member States, which are then highlighted on the logo map, until the 1999 logo and subsequent versions :
1973 logo, 1981 logo, 1986 logo, 1995 logo, 1999 logo, 2012 logo (which is the same as the 1999 logo plus the slogan "The EU bank" and ten five pointed blue stars, contrary to the twelve stars it usually highlight) cropped images from the original located here: "LOGO USER GUIDE (April, 2023)" page 3 (source).

Esteban Rivera, 19 May 2025