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Response to the consultation on future Cohesion Policy in EU budget 2020-2027

Policy comments | 19 March, 2018 | Download PDF

The EU is facing unprecedented challenges right now, but the future Cohesion Policy can make a contribution to strengthening the rule of law, fundamental rights and the principles of democracy, while also enabling ordinary citizens and local communitie


Financing for hydropower in protected areas of southeast Europe: update

Study | 16 March, 2018 | Download PDF

Multilateral development banks have supported no fewer than 82 hydropower projects across southeast Europe, including in protected areas. The study finds that the number of hydropower projects in the region that enjoy financial support from multilatera


Financing energy efficiency in Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria

Briefing | 12 March, 2018 | Download PDF

One of the five closely related and mutually reinforcing dimensions of the Energy Union is represented by energy efficiency, whose importance has also been underlined in the ambitious Paris Agreement. As the Climate and Energy Framework has set an indi


AIIB Public Information Policy

Policy comments | 5 March, 2018 | Download PDF

We share Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s genuine interest and vision that access to information holds the key to ensuring that stakeholders, project-affected people and the general public can provide meaningful inputs into the design and impleme


Comments on the existing EBRD Energy Sector Strategy from 2013

Policy comments | 27 February, 2018 | Download PDF

Bankwatch reviewed the EBRD’s energy lending during the strategy period and used this lens to look at the text of the bank’s 2013 Energy Strategy: what needs to be continued and strengthened and what needs to be changed. The focus is on priority issues