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  • Environmentalists welcome the fact that the European Investment Bank is not granting a loan to Aéroports de la Côte d'Azur (SACA) for the expansion of its terminal 2.

  • This is old information that does not call into question the project, assures the airport.

“The EIB cancels its loans for the Nice airport extension project.

"" Bingo!

Nice victory… ”This Thursday, several environmental associations welcomed on Twitter the decision of the European Investment Bank to“ not grant a loan ”to the company Aéroports de la Côte d'Azur (SACA) for the expansion of its terminal 2. A news also welcomed by the elected EELV of the city and the metropolis: "Now, logically, the extension project should be stopped".

The tweet of Juliette Chesnel-Le Roux, elected ecologist in Nice - Twitter screenshot

Except that this is an old decision, "taken in consultation with the promoter", according to the EIB, and that it does "not at all question" the expansion, ensures the airport.

The project postponed but not abandoned

Solicited by 20 Minutes, the EIB indicates that it was indeed “questioned by the Climate Action network” on the subject “in a letter dated January 28, 2021”.

President Werner Hoyer confirmed to the NGO on Wednesday "that the EIB would not participate in financing the project", which "was the subject of an instruction by the Bank's services, prior to the Covid-19 pandemic" .

And, further specifies the EIB, "in consultation with the promoter, it was nevertheless decided not to continue the investigation".

"This is old information, unearthed to manipulate public opinion and which does not at all call into question the expansion and modernization project of terminal 2.3", reacted a spokesperson for the airport questioned. by

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A few days ago, the abandonment of the construction of a terminal 4 at Roissy had already given hope to the opponents of the extension of the Nice airport.

The project provides for an extension of the terminal by 25,211 m2, to reach a total surface area of ​​97,765 m2.

Postponed due to the pandemic, but not abandoned, the extension was originally intended to accommodate four million additional passengers each year.

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