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Little impact of EU aid for Egypt – Ongoing abuses and Brussels scrutiny puts EBRD’s best laid plans in question

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June 24, 2013 | Read more

How is the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development able to justify a brand new host country agreement with Egypt, given the abuses still being endured in Egypt and the failure of one billion euros of EU money to improve the economic and human rights situation there?

[Campaign update] Plomin project promoter not able to justify health risks of coal

June 21, 2013 | Read more

Public discussions about the Plomin coal power plant’s health impacts show how both project promoters and public authorities prefer to ignore or play down uncomfortable arguments and evidence against the project.

Eleventh hour for Europe’s bank to lead on climate change

June 20, 2013 | Read more

Brussels — Ahead of next week’s expected release from the European Investment Bank of its final draft energy policy, CEE Bankwatch Network and Counter Balance are urging the EU’s house bank to ensure that its annual portfolio of EUR 70 billion is guided by a policy that enables Europe to meet its long-term commitments on climate.

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

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June 18, 2013 | Read more

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.

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

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June 17, 2013 | Read more

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.

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

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June 17, 2013 | Read more

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.

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

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June 12, 2013 | Read more

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.

Kolubara mining waste causes landslide, wrecks homes in Serbia

June 6, 2013 | Read more

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.

[Campaign update] The reality of resettlement in Kolubara: Out of the frying pan into the fire

June 4, 2013 | Read more

A quick visit to the Kolubara mining basin reveals that the resettlement there looks nothing like the presentation from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Face the future: Members of European Parliament discuss energy lending of European public banks

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June 3, 2013 | Read more

A roundtable discussion on European public banks and energy lending brought together Members of the European Parliament and non-governmental organisations, while the public banks themselves chose to stay away.

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