Time to stop shooting the messenger
Blog entry | November 4, 2014
Repression against civil society is on the rise, as the latest alarming case from Montenegro shows.
Blog entry | November 4, 2014
Repression against civil society is on the rise, as the latest alarming case from Montenegro shows.
Bankwatch in the media | May 21, 2012
Although delayed, the TransCanada Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is almost a go despite community resistance from the Canadian border to Texas refineries. Politics will determine when the pipeline will launch. Proponents argue that the pipeline will reduce U.S. dependence on Middle East oil. Opponents raise environmental concerns. But the discourse, dominated by national security, jobs, and pollution, mostly ignores oil extraction and pipeline impacts on women
Blog entry | January 22, 2015
Labelled the €1.3 trillion investment offensive, more than 2000 projects have been identified by the European Commission’s new Task Force on Investment (made up of representatives of the EC, EIB and member states) for fast-tracked financing from President Juncker’s recently announced €315 billion stimulus plan.
Bankwatch in the media | October 17, 2012
MEPs and local NGOs worry that that the European Commission is bypassing civil society and environmental rules as it devises an energy strategy for the Western Balkan region.
Bankwatch in the media | February 10, 2013
L’Union européenne commence ce jeudi d’âpres négociations pour boucler le cadre financier pluriannuel (CFP) dans lequel seront construits chaque budget annuel de l’UE des sept ans à venir. Déjà perdu ? La migraine pointe ? Énervé ?
Blog entry | May 11, 2015
Journalist and researcher Ryskeldi Satke reports on Centerra Gold’s annual general meeting where mining activists presented shareholders with information on human rights violations and the negative environmental and social impacts of the Kumtor Gold mine.
Bankwatch in the media | July 15, 2013
The EU’s investment bank is under pressure to stop financing coal plants
Bankwatch in the media | December 22, 2015
Non-government organization CEE Bankwatch is not happy with the amount of information the European Investment Bank has provided regarding its lending to the Volkswagen Group in recent years. Bankwatch wrote to the EIB at the end of September, asking the bank to disclose documents related to the “green loans” it provided to VW, wanting to see loan contracts or evidence that VW used the money according to the conditions of the contract.
Bankwatch in the media | August 19, 2016
MONTREAL — Quebec has had an international reputation for hydroelectric engineering since the nationalization of Hydro-Québec in the 1960s. The construction of the James Bay Project — one of the largest hydroelectric systems in the world — helped launch the province as a leader in the field and that expertise is getting notice around the world.
Page | January 1, 1970
EU Structural and Cohesion Funds (EU funds) In the current period (2007-2013), 73% (EUR 55 billion) of total EU funds transport funding goes to the CEE-10 countries in central and eastern Europe (without Bulgaria and Romania). These amounts could help significantly improving the often desolate public transport sectors in the region.
CEE Bankwatch Network gratefully acknowledges EU funding support.
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