Over the past three years, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti has attracted 1.2 billion euro in European resources, enabling the mobilisation of approximately 13 billion euro in investments to support strategic development projects across Italy
The Group has been present in Brussels since 2023 with its own office, which has helped strengthen relations with European institutions and companies, facilitating system-wide initiatives on key issues for the Italy
Brussels, 4 June 2025 – The Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) Board of Directors met today at the CDP office in Brussels, two years after its inauguration. This is the first Board meeting held outside of Italy, an event that underscores CDP’s concrete commitment to being a key player in Europe.
This choice is aligned with the 2025–2027 Strategic Plan objectives, which identify the strengthening of the international role of the Group – chaired by Giovanni Gorno Tempini and led by CEO Dario Scannapieco – as a priority. CDP is a facilitator for accessing European resources to support businesses and public administrations.
Over the past three years, CDP has attracted 1.2 billion euro of European resources, mobilising investments in support of various national strategic initiatives valued at approximately 13 billion euro. Specifically, in order to stimulate the economy and competitiveness at the European level – and thanks to cooperation with European Institutions – CDP has supported Italian businesses and public administrations by securing funds from programmes such as InvestEU and the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), giving strong momentum to the Italy's sustainable and technological development.
CDP’s presence in the Belgian capital allows the Group to consolidate relationships with international counterparts and representatives of the primary European Union institutions: it is on the occasion of the CDP board meeting in Brussels that the EU Commissioners for International Partnerships and Financial Services, Jozef Síkela and Maria Luis Albuquerque, have met with CDP Chairman Gorno Tempini and CEO Scannapieco for an exchange of views regarding the synergies between the Mattei Plan and Global Gateway (the European strategy to boost investment globally), proposals to simplify the sustainable finance framework and on the strategy to accelerate the development of the EU capital markets union.
At the same time, thanks to the Brussels’ office activities, it is possible to maintain open and continuous dialogue through forums and associations that bring together the main National Promotional Institutions, such as the “5+1” 1 Group and the European Long-Term Investors Association (ELTI), chaired by Dario Scannapieco.
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1 The “5+1” group is composed of the five main European national promotional institutions: Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (Italy), Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (Poland), Caisse des Dépôts (France), Instituto de Crédito Oficial (Spain), and KfW (Germany), together with the European Investment Bank.