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More questions asked about EBRD and EIB transparency

Bankwatch Mail | 8 October, 2012 | Download PDF

The European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have been awarded some of the worst transparency scores for international finance institutions in this year’s Aid Transparency Index, published in early October by the campaign group Publish What You Fund.


Czech transport investments going nowhere fast

Bankwatch Mail | 8 October, 2012 | Download PDF

Investments in transport infrastructure, particularly in the road sector, in the Czech Republic are stark reminders of wider failures in the country’s decision making that have left public confidence in national officialdom at all time lows. Some of these investments have also lead to hefty penalties being imposed by the European Commission. With planning underway for future EU funding in the Czech transport sector, now is not the time for the Commission to take its eye off the ball.


EU funds to make Latvia the greenest country in the world? A vision still on paper

Bankwatch Mail | 8 October, 2012 | Download PDF

This summer Latvia’s minister for environment and regional development, along with some other like-minded politicians, appeared to kick-start a green revolution by proposing to set a ‘green vision’ for the small Baltic country’s National Development Plan (NDP) for the 2014-2020 period.


EU money well spent – New map of projects

Bankwatch Mail | 8 October, 2012 | Download PDF

Bankwatch, Friends of the Earth Europe and WWF have collaborated to produce a new map that illustrates some of the best practice Cohesion policy investments in infrastructure projects to be realised during the 2007-13 financial period.


EU budget debate: Some one trillion euro questions and answers

Bankwatch Mail | 8 October, 2012 | Download PDF

The negotiations over the future EU budget for 2014-20 are well underway now, often being described under the epitaph ‘EU budget battle’. We tolerate no blood-letting on the pages of Bankwatch Mail. So Keti Medarova-Bergstrom, Senior Policy Analyst at the Institute for European Environmental Policy, and Pawel Swidlicki, Research Analyst at Open Europe, instead put their heads together to identify why and where EU budgetary spending has got it wrong in the past and propose how roughly one trillion euros can better serve Europe’s environment, economy and people in the next funding period. European decision-makers – lay down your budget weapons and listen!