Issue of Equity

ISSUE OF EQUITY                                

BlackRock Greater Europe Investment Trust plc

The Company announces that 100,000 ordinary shares of 0.1p each were today sold
by the Company from the shares held in Treasury at a price of 253.75p per
share.

The resultant total number of Ordinary shares held in Treasury by the Company
is 5,429,676. The number of ordinary shares that the Company has in issue, less
the total number of ordinary shares held by the Company in Treasury following
this sale, is 107,575,830.

Contact name for queries:

Mrs B Powley - BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
Tel: [phone]

4 April 2014