The European Investment Bank’s first bond to be distributed via a public offering in all 27 current EU member states will be a capital-protected structured product linked to the FTSE4Good Environmental Leaders Europe 40 Index.Epos II, EIB’s second European Public Offering of Securities, is a five-year euro-denominated bond paying a minimum return of 5%. Lead managers are Dresdner Kleinwort, Merrill Lynch International and UniCredit Markets & Investment Banking. Epos 1 was a capital-protected