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How the facts got in the way of a good EBRD Roma headline

Bankwatch Mail | 8 October, 2012 | Download PDF

This summer’s ‘silly season’ featured a a blog post on the EBRD website replete with the claim that the bank has helped turn Serbia into a “role model for social inclusion of Roma”. This claim immediately rang hollow in light of the ongoing plethora of abuses of Roma rights in Serbia.


The Oil Road – How a done deal continues to unravel

Bankwatch Mail | 8 October, 2012 | Download PDF

The Oil Road by James Marriot and Mika Minio–Paluello is a remarkable recounting of their journey along the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline from Azerbaijan to the City of London. It is a narrative peppered with a wealth of cultural, social and economic history and kaleidoscopic insight from the Caspian region and beyond.


Egypt’s turmoil is a distraction from the west’s economic agenda

Bankwatch Mail | 8 October, 2012 | Download PDF

The storming of the US embassy in Cairo has diverted attention once again from the real issues facing Egypt. It couldn’t have come at a better time for those who want to convince the Egyptian people to accept an International Monetary Fund loan and other western IFI interventions, and thus extend former president Hosni Mubarak’s liberalisation of the economy.


Hoyer and out: New EIB president muddles through European parliament hearing

Bankwatch Mail | 8 October, 2012 | Download PDF

With the European Investment Bank having recently postponed the annual face-to-face dialogue with NGOs that the bank’s former president Philippe Maystadt initiated in autumn 2011, it was good to see new EIB president Werner Hoyer being put on the spot in September by MEPs during a hearing at the Europeam parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee.


Croatian coal power plans advancing despite legal violations and economic unfeasibility

Bankwatch Mail | 8 October, 2012 | Download PDF

It has been a busy time of late for the planned EUR 800 million, 500 MW Plomin C coal power plant. The Croatian government is pressing ahead with the project under the assumption that it will – along with the equally controversial EBRD-financed Ombla hydropower plant – save Croatia’s ailing economy. Yet it is far from certain who will actually participate in the project, let alone finance it.