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Bankwatch comments on the European Commission’s Communication on PPPs

Policy comments | 26 January, 2010 | Download PDF

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

Advocacy letter | 26 January, 2010 | Download PDF

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

Advocacy letter | 19 January, 2010 | Download PDF

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

Briefing | 18 January, 2010 | Download PDF

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

Advocacy letter | 18 January, 2010 | Download PDF