Keep European public banks out of Mediterranean region, say NGOs
Press release | 9 March, 2011This week, EU leaders are meeting to agree on a common response to events in the Mediterranean. A coalition of Western and Eastern European NGOs issues a serious warning that the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development are not the right institutions to financially support the transition in the Middle East and North Africa.
Read morePutin’s visit to BXL: Russian NGOs call on Barroso to stop European financing of Russian motorways in light of HR abuses
Press release | 23 February, 2011Ahead of tomorrow’s meeting between Russian PM Vladimir Putin and EU representatives, a coalition of major Russian NGOs is urging President Barroso to make sure that EU financing institutions halt their participation in toll motorway projects in Russia until there are serious improvements in the human rights and public participation situation associated with these projects.
Read moreShadow report on discrimination in Serbia doesn’t cast the best light on EIB and EBRD
Blog entry | 18 February, 2011Roma’s discrimination in Serbia is to be discussed by the UN. Serbian member group CEKOR is contributing with experience from the Gazela resettlement process.
Read moreEBRD can’t stay away from Russian motorways – Khimki destruction goes ahead while women and children are being arrested
Blog entry | 11 February, 2011Yesterday, police in Khimki arrested an activist of the Movement for the Defence of Khimki Forest. The activist Alla Chernyshova and her daughters of 3 and 6 had to spend more than five hours in custody where she was questioned as the main suspect for a false bomb threat.
Read moreHundreds to protest against ArcelorMittal in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Press release | 10 February, 2011Hundreds of people are expected to attend a protest against illegal levels of air pollution from the local ArcelorMittal steelmill this Friday afternoon. The action has been organized through social media and is supported by local NGOs Dosta! and Zenica Eko-Forum.
Read moreFinancial intermediaries must not prevent transparency at the EBRD
Blog entry | 1 February, 2011On 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.
Read moreTree adoptions lead to more arrests in Khimki Forest
Blog entry | 17 January, 2011Despite 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.
Read moreEBRD undermines Slovenian climate targets and governmental review with 200 million euros for dirty coal project
Press release | 14 January, 2011Ljubljana, Slovenia — Campaign groups today lambasted the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) signature of a 200 million euros loan for the Sostanj thermal power plant in Slovenia [1], calling it a blatant affront to Slovenia’s long-term climate targets. The signing also fails to await the outcome of a governmental review of the controversial project, expected in mid-February.
Read moreHave you voted in the 2010 worst EU lobbying awards yet?
Blog entry | 5 November, 2010ArcelorMittal, 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.
Read moreBaseball bat attack hospitalises Khimki Forest activist, latest violence connected with controversial Moscow-St Petersburg motorway plans
Press release | 4 November, 2010Environmental and human rights activist Konstantin Fetisov of Khimki near Moscow was today assaulted near his house by unknown assailants wielding a baseball bat and is now in a serious condition in hospital.
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