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Investing in Georgia’s East-West Highway – the Country’s Key Trade and Transport Artery

May 16, 2024

in Business & Economy


The promise and perils of Georgia’s East–West Highway project

May 2, 2024

Georgia’s East-West Highway construction project, once heralded as a symbol of progress and splendour, has been marred by controversies.


When China builds an expensive highway in Montenegro – rts.ch

September 23, 2023

Three lanes of traffic, dozens of bridges and tunnels crossing imposing mountains. As soon as you leave Podgorica, the capital, the first …


In Kenya, a motorway funded by the European Investment Bank runs over roadside dwellers

July 30, 2018

Children dropping out of school, trees cut, people living in fear of another wave of forced evictions – the European Investment Bank’s (EIB) project reveals the critical absence of human rights safeguards in the EU’s overseas development financing.


Putting human rights first at the European Investment Bank. Upcoming opportunities

July 23, 2018

The nearly 1,000 kilometre route connecting Mombasa and Lake Victoria has always been of key importance for the development of Eastern Africa. The narrow, crowded car road is still the main artery of the region. By 2020, the Kenya National Highways Aut


Bulgarian government wants to limit civil rights for the sake of EU funding

July 24, 2017

With new legislation, Bulgaria’s government is trying to limit inconvenient civil engagement in projects it deems strategic.


AB, iş projelere gelince insan hakları ihlallerini unuttu

July 7, 2017

AKP iktidarlarının 2011 seçimleri öncesinde seçim meydanlarına malzeme yaptığı mega projeler adı altındaki altyapı yatırımları, o gün bugündür çeşitli tartışmalarla ve itirazlarla gündemden eksik olmuyor. Bu projeler, genellikle geniş çevresel, sosyal


Coal-fired power plants as export hits

September 29, 2016

China treibt den Ausbau der Infrastruktur entlang seiner Handelswege voran. Dabei setzt Peking auf Technologien, deren Stellenwert im eigenen Land sinken soll: Dreckschleudern wie Kohlekraftwerke. Source: Coal-fired power plants as export hits | NZZ


No security for Europe from the Southern Gas Corridor

May 16, 2016

With an ownership structure heavily influenced by Azerbaijan, the European Commission’s flagship energy project may end up being a costly piece of infrastructure that does not increase Europe’s energy security but offers a tool for political leverage to the authoritarian Aliyev regime.


Italian mayor stands up against EU priority gas pipeline

June 8, 2015

Local opposition against the Trans-Adriatic gas pipeline (TAP) is growing as an Italian mayor made clear in an open letter to the European Commission and European public banks.


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