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As construction plans for several other controversial sections of the motorway proceed at high speed, another Natura 2000 site - the Knyszyn Forest - finds itself in danger and with it the habitats of at least 15 bird species and mammals like wolf, lynx and the European bison.

CEE Bankwatch Network and the Polish Society for the Protection of the Birds (OTOP/BirdLife Poland) urge the European Commission to call on Poland to halt these road works until appropriate European environmental legislation is respected.

These recommendations have been made during the preparation for the second round of public hearings on the Demir Kapija-Smokvica highway project. They are written in Macedonian and are available at Eco-sense's website.

Download Eco-sense's recommendations for transparent public hearings

The financial and economic crisis unravelling across the world economy has fundamentally changed economic policy imperatives for states and international financial institutions, including those operating at the European level. This situation offers the opportunity to articulate policies favourable to progressive social and environmental aims as integral parts of effective and transformative plans for economic recovery.

While todays policy makers are unlikely to be moved by such arguments at this point, broader layers of social actors engaged in debates about the crisis most definitely will. This report seeks to provide guidance for their mobilisation by considering the context, formulation and delivery of crisis response policies by the EC, the EIB and the EBRD in relation to the CEE economies.