The Egyptian Revolution and Neo-Liberal Economics

30 April 2012  | The Real News

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Debate on greener EU budget gets underway

24 April 2012  | ENDS Europe

One of the MEPs leading debate on the environmental earmarking of EU funds in the next budget will outline her views in the parliament’s environment committee in early May. Rapporteur Jutta Haug issued three working documents last week.

Lessons learned for the EBRD

10 April 2012  | EUObserver

In recent weeks, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has been in the news as rarely before, with a few important questions being raised about its accountability.

The European Investment Bank should rather do better than more

30 March 2012  | New Europe

The European Investment Bank – the European Union’s house bank – should lend more responsibly and more transparently, said the European Parliament on Thursday while assessing the bank’s annual activity report. But the capital increase at the EIB called for by the same European Parliament would hardly allow an already over-stretched institution to make such improvements. The bank would be better advised to work on improving management of current resources before rushing into a capital expansion.

Prljavi novac i slovenska termoelektrana

28 March 2012  | Al Jazeera Balkans

Državna komisija upozorava da je korupcija mogla utjecati na dodjelu ugovora o izgradnji novog bloka u termoelektrani Šoštanj.

MEPs question heavy greening of the EU budget

28 March 2012  | EurActiv

Earmarking too large a chunk of the European Union’s cohesion funds for environmental projects in the 2014-2020 budget could be “detrimental”, MEPs said.