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Another case of alleged corruption in a CEE energy company
September 17, 2012

Alleged corruption at Poland’s second biggest state-owned energy company ENEA S.A. may compromise yet another project financed by European public banks.

EBRD
EIB
Energy & climate
Social & economic impacts
CEE, corruption, ENEA, energy, EU, Poland, privatisation
What goes around, comes around: Portugal's debt boomerangs back on public-private partnerships
August 10, 2012

Europe's anti-crisis measures include efforts to increase private investments in public infrastructure. Yet, a backlash against public-private partnerships in Portugal is a warning against putting too much faith in this approach.

EIB
austerity, corporate influence, corporations, crisis, eurozone, PFI, PPP, public debt
Spot the difference: Alstom in Indonesia and Slovenia
July 31, 2012

The company hired to build a new unit at the Sostanj lignite power plant is involved in strikingly similar corruption cases across continents.

EBRD
EIB
Energy & climate
Social & economic impacts
Alstom, coal, corruption, due dilligence, EU, fossil fuels, Sostanj, transparency
A threatened growth package
July 20, 2012

Shifting gears from the austerity years, EU leaders recently proposed injecting EUR 120 billion into the European economy.

EIB
Social & economic impacts
austerity, economic crisis, EU, EU, growth
Bringing EU standards to third countries?
July 13, 2012

When the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development invest money in our countries, they are often expected to promote good practices in the projects they support.

EBRD
EIB
Energy & climate
accountability, complaint, EU neighbourhood, local impacts, nuclear, Ukraine
Another own goal for Ukraine at the Euro 2012
June 27, 2012

A Euro 2012 related road rehabilitation in Ukraine has left locals with a high speed road but no safety in their front yards.

EBRD
EIB
Transport
Social & economic impacts
EU neighbourhood, Euro 2012, Kiev, local impacts, road, Ukraine
Europe's unequal partnerships - a sad tale about energy
June 25, 2012

A too strong focus on energy security is steering Europe's engagement with neighbouring states in a troublesome direction for the partnering countries.

EBRD
EIB
Energy & climate
Social & economic impacts
Other harmful projects
Balkans
Balkans, biodiversity, energy security, ENP, EU neighbourhood, hydropower, nuclear, policy, renewables
The EIB in Greece: by the numbers
June 15, 2012

As Europe’s financial establishment braces for the results of tomorrow’s Greek elections and Eurozone officials dangle the carrot of a new European Investment Bank programme in front of Athens, we’ve prepared a snapshot of previous EIB loans in the country. [1] [2] [3] [4] (NB: any tricolour similarities are entirely coincidental.)

EIB
Energy & climate
Social & economic impacts
austerity, crisis, debt, economics, EIB, EU, eurozone, graph, Greece, numbers
The revolution should not be privatised
June 12, 2012

Pushing for public-private partnerships will not support democratisation in the Arab Spring countries but risks increasing their public debt. Our new website brings together the PPP lessons that Europe should have learned.

EBRD
EIB
Social & economic impacts
Arab spring, corruption, democratisation, development, Egypt, infrastructure, PFI, PPP, public-private partnerships, Southern Mediterranean
The writings on the European Parliament's wall: Make the EIB choose a brighter future
May 15, 2012

Ahead of the European Investment Bank's annual meeting, Counter Balance and Bankwatch have chosen an unconventional way to remind the EIB shareholders of the bank's chequered track record.

EIB
Energy & climate
Social & economic impacts
austerity, EIB, euro crisis, growth, public action, sustainability, video

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