Updates on the European Investment Bank

Complaint to EIB on Rivne – Kyiv High Voltage Line Project seeking project compliance review

Another own goal for Ukraine at the Euro 2012

A Euro 2012 related road rehabilitation in Ukraine has left locals with a high speed road but no safety in their front yards.

Europe’s unequal partnerships – a sad tale about energy

A too strong focus on energy security is steering Europe’s engagement with neighbouring states in a troublesome direction for the partnering countries.

The EIB in Greece: by the numbers

As Europe’s financial establishment braces for the results of tomorrow’s Greek elections and Eurozone officials dangle the carrot of a new European Investment Bank programme in front of Athens, we’ve prepared a snapshot of previous EIB loans in the country. [1] [2] [3] [4] (NB: any tricolour similarities are entirely coincidental.)

A call for an open and transparent consultation process over the EIB’s energy policy

In this letter, five NGOs and NGO coalitions call on the EIB to undertake consultations according to the best standard as well as to identify and inform a wide range of stakeholders about the revision of the policy.

The revolution should not be privatised

Pushing for public-private partnerships will not support democratisation in the Arab Spring countries but risks increasing their public debt. Our new website brings together the PPP lessons that Europe should have learned.

The European Investment Bank is not ready for a capital increase, NGOs say

Brussels – As EU Ministers of Finance are currently gathering at the Annual General Meeting of the European Investment Bank (EIB) to discuss a possible capital increase, civil society organisations that monitor the EIB say the bank is not ready for such a move.

The writings on the European Parliament’s wall: Make the EIB choose a brighter future

Ahead of the European Investment Bank’s annual meeting, Counter Balance and Bankwatch have chosen an unconventional way to remind the EIB shareholders of the bank’s chequered track record.

Video projected on the European Parliament questions potential European Investment Bank’s capital increase

Brussels – On Monday night a video was projected on the building of the European Parliament which denounced the unsustainable energy portfolio of the European Investment Bank (EIB). The 1 minute video concluded with: “Make the EIB chose a brighter future before increasing its capital”, a message for EIB governors which gather Tuesday 15 May in Brussels during the bank’s Annual General Meeting. The main topic will be a possible capital increase of the EIB.

The medium-sized EIB bazooka – Europe’s people and environment must benefit this time around

As it begins to dawn on Europe’s elite that fiscal austerity is not working after all, the European Investment Bank is once again the talk of the EU as decision-makers scramble to stimulate national economies that are hemhorraging jobs and living standards – and hope – across the continent.