Updates on the European Investment Bank

Report from visit to new Roma settlements in Belgrade, 11.02.2010

During a recent CEKOR fact finding mission 3 settlements were visited – Makis in Cukarica municipality, Kijevo in Rakovica municipality, and Varos in Mladenovac municipality. The report summarises the still problematic situation in the new settlements and offers specific recommendations related to leaking and sinking containers, electricity, health care and ID documents, employment and more.

Transparency allergy reappears at EIB, crisis billions still cloaked in confidentiality

CEE Bankwatch Network today criticised the European Investment Bank (EIB) for adopting a new transparency policy that persists in keeping the final destination of billions of publicly backed money unknown to the public.

EIB response to an open NGO letter regarding the bank’s potential involvement in the Moscow-St.Petersburg motorway project

Report from fact-finding mission on Corridor Vc motorway, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 23 – 25 February 2010

On 23-25 February 2010 Bankwatchs Balkan and EBRD Co-ordinators together with colleagues from the Banja Luka-based Center for Environment and Sarajevo-based Ekotim undertook a third visit regarding the Corridor Vc motorway in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Letter accompanying Bankwatch’s comments on the European Commission’s Communication on public-private partnerships

Bankwatch’s policy comments on public-private partnerships are available here.

Bankwatch comments on the European Commission’s Communication on PPPs

Bankwatch is concerned that public-private partnerships in infrastructure are being heavily promoted in central and eastern Europe (CEE) even though the evidence from the use of such models so far, both in the region and in western Europe is mixed or sometimes absent.

NGO letter to EIB and European Commissioners regarding the bank’s potential involvement in the Moscow-St.Petersburg motorway project

The letter, signed by 41 civil society organisations from Russia, requests the European Investment Bank not to approve funding for the Moscow-St.Petersburg motorway project unless the route is changed to avoid the Khimki Forest near Moscow.

Response by Georgian Railways regarding the Tbilisi railway bypass project

Some implications of the Lisbon Treaty for the European Investment Bank – Counter Balance Briefing for MEPs

Letter to DG Economic and Financial Affairs regarding the EIB’s external mandate and Central Asia