Thus a leverage ratio of “only” eight represents a notable multiplier effect and better than what can be achieved with EU budgetary means, where the effect resides between four and six. The focal point of financing activity, as always with the EIB, will be economically viable projects. Such an ear- marked capital injection could be dedicated especially to targets of focused progrowth and employment policies, from the financing of innovation, to the promotion of SMEs, to economic land- mark projects, such as a cable connection from the most suitable European locations for solar energy production in Crete to the mainland, an investment which is economically viable but finds no financiers.