Strategic Area Leader - Cities for people
Email: fidankab AT bankwatch.orgTel.: +359 877 303 097
Fidanka joined Bankwatch in 2004 as a Balkan coordinator and became an EBRD campaign coordinator in 2010.
She holds an Environmental Science and Policy degree from the Central European University and an Environmental Law degree from Queens University, Belfast.
More from Fidanka Bacheva-McGrath
The economic viability of coal is ever decreasing. Without public financial support many coal investments are doomed to fail. Yet several institutions are still willing to finance an energy source that wrecks our climate, damages our health and wastes
EPS restructuring loan
May 10, 2018 | Read more
Despite its commitments to increase the share of renewables under the Energy Community and reduce greenhouse gas emissions within the process of EU accession, the Serbian government seems determined to remain locked-in to a carbon intensive energy syst
Mongolia 2.0
March 27, 2018 | Read more
Only recently Mongolia was known as the biggest nomadic country in the world. Today, it is struggling to move past it.
With crude manipulations, the Bulgarian government is trying to push through a contended motorway route that would damage the country’s biodiversity hotspot in breach of EU law and international conventions. It expects that the European Commission will sit, watch and pay for it.
For European development bank democracy is an afterthought
September 19, 2016 | Read more
Almost one in four euros lent by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 2015 went to authoriatrian countries. The bank has clearly decided to ignore its own mandate, or else it would have to considerably shrink its business.
