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Italian communities block pipeline works to save ancient olive trees

A graffiti saying NO TAP on a wall next to a beach.

March 23, 2017 | Read more

An ancient olive grove in southern Italy is currently on the frontlines of grassroots resistance to the Southern Gas Corridor project, the EU’s flagship energy project.

The EU budget: Unlocking a new vision for Europe

A person, seen from behind, looking into the sunset.

March 20, 2017 | Read more

The key to unlocking a more inspiring and politically winnable New Vision for a strong Europe may well be the next European budget.

Hatching discontent in Ukraine

A view of fields through a train window. A hand is holding the window open.

March 16, 2017 | Read more

In Ukraine, big agriculture uses unscrupulous methods to manufacture consensus for expansion and marginalise local communities – often with the support of international donors.

Azerbaijan suspended from the EITI – a Bankwatch and Counter Balance statement

March 10, 2017 | Read more

A decision to suspend Azerbaijan’s membership in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) adopted yesterday (Mar 9) is the latest reminder for international financial institutes to avoid supporting the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC) project.

Tackling gender inequality at the EU’s flagship energy project

March 7, 2017 | Read more

It is fitting that we use today to reflect on the European Investment Bank’s new Strategy on Gender Equality and Women’s Economic Empowerment: 8 March is International Women’s Day. Adopted at the beginning of this year, the strategy complements the ban

EU watchdog investigating European Investment Bank for maladministration

March 6, 2017 | Read more

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is being investigated for maladministration, after the European Ombudsman sent a formal letter opening the case this week (27 February 2017).

[Campaign update] Ukrainian nuclear power consultations could be Potemkin villages

March 3, 2017 | Read more

On Sunday, March 5, nuclear reactor number 3 at the Zaporizhia power plant in Ukraine, Europe’s largest nuclear power station, will reach the end of its 30 year lifespan. Kiev wants to keep this Soviet-era nuclear unit going for at least ten more years

Bulgaria risks unnecessary breach of nature laws, threatening EUR 800 million of EU funding

March 2, 2017 | Read more

The building of an EU-funded motorway linking Bulgaria and Greece, through Kresna Gorge – a stunning wildlife haven protected by EU nature laws – would be a disaster for nature and local people, and could result in up to €781 million being returned to the European Commission, claim Bulgarian and international NGO experts.

Small is (not always) beautiful: small hydro development in the Western Balkans

February 28, 2017 | Read more

It has long been recognised that the human and environmental costs of large dams are extremely high. But what about small ones? Here we unpack some of the myths being spread about small hydropower in the Balkans.

[Campaign update] Protestors take to Kyiv to demand action from agribusiness giant encroaching on their lands

February 24, 2017 | Read more

On 22 February, more than 70 activists and residents from the Chyhyryn region south of Kyiv protested outside the headquarters of Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP), the Ukrainian agribusiness conglomerate owned by one of the country’s richest billionaires.

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