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Publication | 7 February, 2003In this EIB monothematic issue: The EIB’s New Information Policy: Ask for Infromation-Test the Bank * Road to Ruin (EIB’s Loan for Bulgarian E-79 Road Construction) * Money for Nothing (Questions for the Benefits from the EU Phare Project in Bulgaria) * Did EIB Loans Tend to Ruin Regional Railways? (Slovakian Case) * Participation for Better Planning Documents? (National Development Plan for Latvia) * Not Too Late to Put Things Right (EIB Loan for Construction of Czech D-8 Highway) * The Balkan Stability Pact: What is it good for?
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Publication | 7 April, 2002In this issue: EIB: Join the EIB: NO REFORM – NO MONEY Campaign!, Why the EIB must be reformed * EIB Funding for Enron * Kozloduy Decommissioning Fund * Are the EU and the EIB making a habit of building highways through Biodiversity sites?
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Publication | 7 March, 2002In this issue: NEMAK Aluminium Work Project in Czech Republic: What grows in those fertile fields? * WB Forest Development Project in Romania: Remebering the Amazon * Sofia-Kulata Motorway Project in Bulgaria: The EIA procedure has not started at all
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Publication | 28 February, 2002In this issue dedicated to the ‘No Reform, No Money’ campaign: EIB: NO REFORM NO MONEY! EIB: No Responsibility for Development, EIB Information Policy * EIB – a Friend to the Environment * Bulgaria: Nuclear plant or EU Membership * EBRD to Fund Project Under Legal Challenge * Clear Targets for Climate Change Needed
Read moreThe Lesotho Highlands Water Project: Massive Dams for Massive Disasters
Publication | 2 February, 2002A case study prepared for the campaign “No Reform No Money” The campaign urged EIB shareholder countries to condition the replenishment of the bank’s capital on substantial improvements in public access to information, environmental standards, a proper development mandate, and appropriate supervision by EU institutions.
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Publication | 7 December, 2001In this issue: Oil Terminal in Ramsar Site * K2/R4 Progress * Energoatom * EIB/EBRD Accountability * NEMAK Aluminium Project * ISPA Projects * Forest Development Project in Romania
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Publication | 7 April, 2001In this issue: EBRD: Language Apartheid * K2/R4, Bratislava Bridge * Motorway in Bulgaria * Public Transport in Hungary * Pulp Mill in Latvia * 10th birthday of Espoo Convention * New Study on IFIs in Russian Oil Sector
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Publication | 7 May, 2000In this issue: Caspian Oil attracts EBRD *Kumtor Gold Mine: Two years later *K2/R4: Is the Blackmail Over? *The World Bank exploring new ways of dialogue with NGOs *The EBRD Knows that K2/R4 Is a Bad Project *CEE Training Opportunity on Globalisation *Decommissioning Fund: the Long-awaited Solution? *Prague 2000 Public Awareness Activities
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Publication | 7 March, 2000In this “Jellyfish Issue – World Bank-NGO relations”: World Bank-NGO Relations: An Overview * A Crippled CAS In Slovakia * World Bank Aids CEZ to Fund Czech Nuclear Power * Ripples from the EIB Report Reach EIB Executive Suite * Prague 2000 Activities on the World Bank
Read moreThe European Investment Bank: Accountable Only to the Market?
Publication | 31 December, 1999International financial institutions (IFIs) around the world have been asked in recent years to take on new policy issues, in an effort to improve their performance and transparency. Many have made a concerted effort to do so, although to mixed reviews. One important exception is the European Investment Bank (EIB), a secretive bank of the European Union (EU). When other IFIs are taking steps to address these policy issues, the EIB has shown the least amount of change.
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