The first operational meeting of the Transatlantic Resilient Infrastructure Alliance (TRIA) was held in Luxembourg on 6. March 2025, following a formal launch in New York in October 2024. It took place in the context of the third edition of the EIB Group Forum, held from 5. to 7. March 2025. TRIA, a joint initiative between the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European American Chamber of Commerce New York (EACCNY), aims to unite key actors to support the financing of infrastructure investments in low- and middle-income countries.
The meeting focused on the opportunities for investments in Latin America, with particular attention to the needs of energy security and critical raw materials, with discussions also touching on future agendas in other sectors and geographies such as Africa and Eastern Europe. The EIB delegation, led by Vice President Tsakiris and EIB Global Director General Andrew McDowell, engaged with high-level representatives from EACCNY and members who joined the TRIA initiative, among them leading US and EU companies.
In his remarks to open the meeting, VP Tsakiris emphasized the importance of such an innovative forum to advance the EU’s external policies. The Vice President noted that “TRIA is a unique initiative that emphasises collaboration, quality infrastructure, between the public and the private sector. These elements are all the more crucial in today’s evolving context, both in business and political terms, as we seek to demonstrate to our counterparts the value of the EU’s approach through tangible investments on the ground.”
The business delegation was led by EACCNY Executive Director Yvonne Bendinger-Rothschild, who also highlighted the importance of maintaining open communications between the EU and the U.S. to create beneficial connections.
“Europe and the US have the financial and operational resources to make a meaningful difference to close the investment gap in low- and middle-income countries. We need to work hand in hand to ensure that those resources are deployed strategically, that projects are appropriately funded and that we have the best minds from both t Europe and the U.S. working on them.
The time to act is now. Looking at the economic might and innovative drive on both sides of the Atlantic it behoves us to take the lead and set an example to address global infrastructure investments. TRIA is a strategic and collaborative platform, the EIB and EACCNY – as co-founders – designed to identify a pool of projects and enable interested public and/or private, financier and corporate members to participate in their development.”
The members of the initiative agreed to follow up on a sector-by-sector basis over the coming months, with the goal to identifying specific opportunities for collaboration both on financing and project development.
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