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The G8, tax havens and the need to clean up our own “bank yard”

18 June, 2013

While the G8 leaders claim they are at war with tax avoidance, their own bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is involved in deals linked to offshore financial centres.

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EU funds in people’s hands. When small things make a difference.

17 June, 2013

A Croation winner of Bankwatch’s Better Ideas contest for sustainable EU Funds has just begun implementing their project. The positive responses from their community and the successful start illustrate that “small is beautiful” can also apply to Cohesion Policy.

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Guest post: New film: Tar sands – to the ends of the earth

17 June, 2013

Friends of the Earth Europe’s new film, documenting the efforts of local communities in Madagascar to protect their island home from tar sands development, was premiered in Europe last week at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

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Shale tale: Unconventional gas and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

12 June, 2013

During the last months, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has come out with positive statements about shale gas investments, most recently on Poland – a rather rash endorsement of a controversial technology.

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Kolubara mining waste causes landslide, wrecks homes in Serbia

6 June, 2013

Belgrade — A landslide caused by mining operations at Kolubara lignite mines in Serbia is advancing towards the village Junkovac in the Serbian Lazarevac municipality, threatening to engulf parts of it; two houses and a road have been destroyed already, and tens of other homes are at risk.

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