EIB response to an open NGO letter regarding the bank’s potential involvement in the Moscow-St.Petersburg motorway project
February 3, 2010
Report from fact-finding mission on Corridor Vc motorway, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 23 – 25 February 2010
February 2, 2010
On 23-25 February 2010 Bankwatchs Balkan and EBRD Co-ordinators together with colleagues from the Banja Luka-based Center for Environment and Sarajevo-based Ekotim undertook a third visit regarding the Corridor Vc motorway in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Letter to the EBRD regarding the need for a satisfactory Stakeholder Engagement Plan for ArcelorMittal Temirtau
February 2, 2010
EBRD response to comments on the Tbilisi railway bypass project
January 29, 2010
Bankwatch comments on the European Commission’s Communication on PPPs
January 26, 2010
Bankwatch is concerned that public-private partnerships in infrastructure are being heavily promoted in central and eastern Europe (CEE) even though the evidence from the use of such models so far, both in the region and in western Europe is mixed or sometimes absent.
Letter accompanying Bankwatch’s comments on the European Commission’s Communication on public-private partnerships
January 26, 2010
Bankwatch’s policy comments on public-private partnerships are available here.
NGO letter to EIB and European Commissioners regarding the bank’s potential involvement in the Moscow-St.Petersburg motorway project
January 19, 2010
The letter, signed by 41 civil society organisations from Russia, requests the European Investment Bank not to approve funding for the Moscow-St.Petersburg motorway project unless the route is changed to avoid the Khimki Forest near Moscow.
Some ways forward for the EBRD – NGO proposals for the EBRD Capital Resource Review 4
January 18, 2010
Even before the current economic crisis there were clear signs that the transition to a market economy in central and eastern Europe, which the EBRD is mandated to promote, is coming with a high social price tag attached. The EBRD’s own survey on transition in 2007 – at the height of the boom times – included the alarming finding from 29,000 respondents across the region that trust in society had plummeted since 1989.
Response by Georgian Railways regarding the Tbilisi railway bypass project
January 18, 2010
The need for a reform of the future EU Cohesion Policy: Putting our money where our mouth is – Position paper of the European Environmental NGO Coalition for Sustainable EU Funds
January 15, 2010
This position paper, prepared by the European NGO Coalition for Sustainable EU Funds focuses on the most urgent steps needed in order to reshape Cohesion policy, the primary EU instrument to foster innovation, towards a new development approach. This new approach must extend beyond economic growth as the key, or even sole, determinant of success.