Financial intermediaries must not prevent transparency at the EBRD
February 1, 2011 | Read more
On the occasion of a revision of the EBRD’s public information policy, Bankwatch points out the lack of information when it comes to financial intermediaries.
Tree adoptions lead to more arrests in Khimki Forest
January 17, 2011 | Read more
Despite the Russian government’s controversial decision to go ahead with the Moscow St. Petersburg motorway’s original routing through Khimki Forest, environmental activists have not given up their struggle to save the last remaining natural area in a densely populated region.
WikiLeaks cable confirms NGOs’ worst fears about Belene nuke
January 3, 2011 | Read more
A US diplomatic cable, originating from the WikiLeaks organisation and published in the Guardian newspaper just before Christmas, relates the serious misgivings of US Ambassador in Bulgaria, Nancy McEldowney, over the planned Belene nuclear power plant in Bulgaria.
In the face of official EU statements stressing the need to decarbonise Europe’s transport sector, our analysis has found that a rise in EIB lending between 2006 and 2009 for roads and aviation has coincided with a dramatic decrease in EIB lending for urban public transport.
Have you voted in the 2010 worst EU lobbying awards yet?
November 5, 2010 | Read more
ArcelorMittal, one of the candidates for the worst EU lobby award, is the world’s largest private steel company, producing 10 per cent of the world’s steel. It is also one of Europe’s largest emitters of CO2. Yet the company successfully lobbied the European Commission on behalf of Europe’s biggest polluters to continue getting free greenhouse gas emissions permits until at least 2020.
Drop the handbags and pick up the green potential of the EU budget
November 2, 2010 | Read more
The EU budget involves billions of euros of public money and it influences a huge array of economic sectors across the continent – it also stirs up thoughts of handbags.
