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The European Investment Bank (EIB) 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.

It should not be confused with the European Central Bank.

"We Are the World" is a song and charity single originally recorded by the supergroup United Support of Artists (USA) for Africa in 1985.

It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie (with arrangements by Michael Omartian) and produced by Quincy Jones for the album We Are the World.

With sales in excess of 20 million copies, it is one of the fewer than 30 all-time singles to have sold at least 10 million copies worldwide.

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

It has an area of, and an estimated population of over 510 million.

The EU has developed an internal single market through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member states.

EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people, goods, services, and capital within the internal market, enact legislation in justice and home affairs, and maintain common policies on trade, agriculture, fisheries, and regional development.

Within the Schengen Area, passport controls have been abolished.

A monetary union was established in 1999 and came into full force in 2002, and is composed of 19 EU member states which use the euro currency.

In finance, a loan is the lending of money from one individual, organization or entity to another individual, organization or entity.

A loan is a debt provided by an entity (organization or individual) to another entity at an interest rate, and evidenced by a promissory note which specifies, among other things, the principal amount of money borrowed, the interest rate the lender is charging, and date of repayment.

A loan entails the reallocation of the subject asset(s) for a period of time, between the and the .

In international relations, multilateralism is multiple countries working in concert on a given issue.

Multilateralism is a form of alliance, although it may have somewhat of a different structure than traditional alliances.

Multilateralism was defined by Miles Kahler as "international governance" or global governance of the "many," and its central principle was "opposition [of] bilateral discriminatory arrangements that were believed to enhance the leverage of the powerful over the weak and to increase international conflict".

In 1990, Robert Keohane simply defined multilateralism as "the practice of coordinating national policies in groups of three or more states.

John Ruggie further elaborated the concept of multilateralism based on the principles of "indivisibility" and "diffuse reciprocity (international relations)" as "an institutional form which coordinates relations among three or more states on the basis of 'generalized' principles of conduct...

which specify appropriate conduct for a class of actions, without regard to particularistic interests of the parties or the strategic exigencies that may exist in any occurrence.".