Updates on the European Investment Bank

NGO letter to EIB complaining on the access to information on D8 motorway loan to the Czech Republic

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In 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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In 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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In 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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In 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

The Lesotho Highlands Water Project: Massive Dams for Massive Disasters

A 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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In 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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In 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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In 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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In 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