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The EBRD’s indirect involvement in the Amulsar gold mine in Armenia through Ameriabank has raised concerns about compliance with its Environmental and Social Policy, due to unresolved legacy issues associated with the project.
As temperatures rise over the summer months, conversations about heating homes may seem distant for many. Yet for many residents of Petroșani – a former coal-mining town in Romania’s Jiu Valley – the challenge of keeping homes warm is a recurring reality that returns every winter, shaped by ageing buildings, low incomes and limited access to support.
The EBRD-financed Almaty International Airport expansion and Horizon infrastructure project have been subject to a number of complaints, including alleged legal and heritage protection violations involving the demolition of a protected 1947 terminal building.
This briefing highlights the potential impacts of two recent EU policy developments and also presents several successful examples from central and eastern Europe.
Slovenia’s state-owned Hidroelektrarne na Spodnji Savi (HESS) has for two decades been trying to build the controversial Mokrice hydropower plant on the river Sava. But poor quality environmental studies have been repeatedly quashed in court by the Slovenian Native Fish Society, and a recent transboundary assessment’s claims that the impacts will stop at the Croatian border are far from convincing.
