EU bank’s new environmental and social policy not fit for lofty development ambitions
February 2, 2022
The European Investment Bank (EIB) – the financial arm of the EU – has approved a set of new environmental and social standards that, despite some last-minute changes, leave the door open to human rights abuses and biodiversity destruction, warn civil society groups.
The EIB’s safeguard rules must match its global ambitions
February 1, 2022
The EU’s house bank has great development aspirations, but its draft environmental and social policy has dangerous gaps that will come back to haunt it.
EIB needs better grip on cash it hands out, groups say
January 31, 2022
Middlemen need closer scrutiny, as does human rights due diligence, critics say
Does the EBRD still finance freedom?
January 30, 2022
The investment climate was hardly auspicious when the head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development visited Ankara, the …
Жители сел Винницкой области борются с МХП: люди опасаются соседства с птицефабрикой
January 28, 2022
О трехлетнем противостоянии громад и агрохолдинга говорится в материале ZN,UA.
EIB boss pushes for more investments outside EU
January 28, 2022
The president of the European Investment Bank Werner Hoyer. Photo by: Dati Bendo / European Union European Investment Bank President …
МХП vs громады: три года непростого противостояния
January 27, 2022
Как маленькие люди противостоят крупному бизнесу
23 NGOs slam EIB human-rights record, amid review
January 27, 2022
A group of 23 NGOs wrote to the European Investment Bank (EIB) directors on Wednesday (26 January), urging them to improve its human rights …
Правителството на Сърбия се отказа от проекта за литиева мина
January 21, 2022
Граждани и екоорганизации от дълго време водят кампания срещу проекта в далината Ядар заради рисковете за околната среда
Ecologists claim victory as Serbia cancels plans for lithium mine
January 21, 2022
Serbia may be sitting on 10 per cent of the world’s lithium, but the country’s government this week decided it will stay in the ground. …
