Germany is holding Greece to ransom
4 June 2012 | New Europe
Bloomberg, not exactly a Bolshevik press agency, recently highlighted why we should have zero sympathy for the bankers of Frankfurt and Berlin. Its editors cited estimates that Germany took more than 284 billion euros from other countries in the single currency bloc between 2009 and the end of last year. Greece has so far received 340 billion euros in loans as a response to the financial crisis; just 15 billion euros of that sum came directly from Germany.
Cutting energy use in Europe’s old building stock: Mission impossible?
4 June 2012 | EurActiv
http://www.euractiv.com/energy-efficiency/cutting-energy-use-europes-old-b-linksdossier-512025
Parliament: do not let Poland hijack green agenda
1 June 2012 | EuObserver
Warsaw’s latest battle against efforts to ‘green’ Europe’s economy is being played out in the European Parliament’s regional affairs committee. Polish-designed technical texts could kill the environment-friendly criteria attached to the next €1 trillion EU budget.
EBRD refutes claim it will fund Ukrainian reactor life extensions
31 May 2012 | Platts
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has rejected claims by an anti-nuclear group that a loan it is considering together with Euratom for Ukraine’s nuclear sector will be used to extend the operating lives of the country’s Soviet-era reactors.
Polish Power-Station Free Carbon Bid Breaks Law:Greenpeace
31 May 2012 | Bloomberg
Poland broke European Union law when unbuilt power stations were permitted to apply for free carbon allowances last year, Greenpeace and three other climate charities said.
EBRD Expansion to Tunisia Brings New Focus on Private Sector
25 May 2012 | Tunisia Live
With its sights set on Tunisia and other countries in the southern and eastern Mediterranean (SEMED), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) declared at a recent summit in London that it is breaking away from the free-market approach it employed to shore up the economies of Eastern European states in the post-Cold War period.
