Media officer
Email: ido.liven AT bankwatch.orgTel.: +48 22 892 00 86
Ido joined Bankwatch in 2015 as a media officer, and he is in charge of our liaison with journalists. Prior to this he had mostly worked as an independent journalist for nearly a decade. His stories, mainly about the environment and international affairs, have been published in a range of media outlets around the world. In the course of these years he also graduated from the Aarhus University, Denmark, and the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as part of the the Erasmus Mundus Master's in Journalism, Media and Globalisation.
More from Ido Liven
As the realisation of the project keeps dragging on, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the EBRD, and all international financial institutions involved, to justify their engagement.
EIB and Volkswagen keen to return to business as usual
March 7, 2019 | Read more
Long overdue, and short on content, a compact version of the investigation report on the role of EIB money in the Dieselgate scandal affirms Bankwatch’s revelations that helped trigger this important inquiry. But in its aftermath, there is little to suggest that the EU’s bank has done anything to ensure that the public money it manages will not be misused.
Time for the EU’s bank to lead on the clean energy transition
December 7, 2018 | Read more
As world finance paces up to adapt to the global fight against climate change, one main player is lagging behind: the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union’s bank.
In the Israeli Environmental Protection Ministry’s annual ranking, Israel Chemicals has been topping the lists of corporate environmental offenders. For the EIB, the company has “sound environmental policy” which justifies a quarter of billion euros for supporting R&D of specialty chemicals. Ahead of the first anniversary of the Ashalim spill, which originated from an ICL subsidiary’s chemicals plant, a new Bankwatch analysis questions the EIB’s engagement with the company.
While new public finance for the Southern Gas Corridor is lining up, the European Commission’s narrative that the pipeline would relieve Europe’s dependence on Russian gas continues to crumble.
