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Intended as a mechanism for providing financial and structural assistance to the states of Central and Eastern Europe emerging from the shadow of communism, the EBRD is wholly owned by its member countries, along with the European Community (EC) and the European Investment Bank (EIB), and their voting power is determined by the number of shares that they hold. The subscribed capital of the EBRD totals 20 billion euros, although only 5 billion euros is fully paid-in and the Bank does not use these funds to directly finance its loans. Instead the sound financial base that this affords the EBRD earns it top credit ratings from agencies such as Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s and enable it to borrow extremely competitively on the international financial markets.

The Structure of the EBRD

The U.S. is the EBRD’s largest shareholder, with a capital subscription of 2,000 million euros and 10% share of voting rights, followed jointly by Japan and major European powers France, Germany, the U.K. and Italy with an investment of 1,703.5 million euros. The member states of the European Union in conjunction with the EIB possess a simple voting majority, which means that ‘Europe’ as a single entity can in theory take some decisions without the agreement of the U.S., which at the creation of the EBRD served to reinforce its European element, and that it was a Western European initiative to aid Eastern Europe. Although more important decisions, principally the allocation of loans to recipient countries, require qualified majority voting up to a maximum of 85% which means that the U.S. can block loans to what it considers unsuitable countries with relative ease.

The Creation of the EBRD

The negotiations that led to the creation of the EBRD were fraught with difficulties, chiefly due to American objections to the creation of a new intergovernmental development bank in which it was clear from the outset that it would not be able to command the same sort of influence as it does in the World Bank and the IMF, and in which (perhaps a greater problem) the Soviet Union was to be included. The United States was also concerned by the fact that a majority of European countries believed that it was important to allocate loans to the public sector of recipient states as well as to private enterprises.

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