Bankwatch Mail

In this issue: Too much carbon in EU funding – Commission rubber stamps 30 percent rise in Polish GHGs * EIB approves Bujagali Dam in Uganda despite major flaws * Environmental and social safeguards – time to get serious at the EIB * Poland facing trial in European Court of Justice over Via Baltica * Dos and donts - how the EIB can avoid development pitfalls * When is corruption not corruption? Ask the EIB * The memory hole

In this issue: Planes, loans and automobiles * Kyrgyzstan’s government rejected HIPC shackles thanks to public pressure * Editorial: Double standards for how much longer? * The nuclear white elephant in Bulgaria’s room * Rospuda interview – EU law in the driving seat * First PPP motorway in Russia to cause problems for thousands of people * Your voice in Europe: support the Green paper on urban transport

In this issue: Cohesion or Collision? EU funding and biodiversity * Shell's Sakhalin project no friend of people or nature * People's right to know not fully reflected in EIB's new plans to show * Will the neighbouring countries' biodiversity be bulldozed by TEN-T extension? * EIB 1996-2006; Evolution of an invisible giant * New Citizen's Guide for better use of internationally recognised complaint mechanisms * Saaremaa bridge- a crazy Estonian dream * EU waste strategy and public funds must not go up in smoke

In this issue: Sakhalin fishermen’s struggle for justice * Can the EIB deliver on development? * The memory hole * Scraping the bottom of the end-of-pipe barrel * Social issues SOS from EBRD Environmental Department * Time to wake up from South-East Europe’s pipeline dreams * Nukes and cronies in the Balkans * Two or three Americans: Wolfowitz and his Republican appointees * World Bank helping to tarnish jewels of Polish nature * EIB in the South. In whose interest? * We will not be moved * EU funds in central and eastern Europe: cohesion or collision?

In this EIB monothematic issue: EIB’s proposed revision to Information Policy – a step backwards *The EIB in developing countries – a blessing or a curse? * Large dams, big trouble * Positives undermined: the EIB’s lending for renewable energies * Taxpayers’ money drowned with EIB assistance * Bratislava’s bridge of sighs – EIB content to wipe its hands clean * The Memory Hole * Hunt on for new Communications and Information Director at EIB * EIB reform posters heading to Brussels and Luxembourg

In this issue: Sakhalin II hots up * EBRD: It´s time to combat climate change * Extracting benefits: moving beyond voluntary revenue transparency * EU funds: Quantity and quality must go together * Kresna victory: Sofia rapped over Bern Convention breaches * New Bulgarian coalition formed to optimise Structural funds for 2007-2013 * DOE-no! Another pointless mega-project * EBRD transport policy: How the transition countries can escape the “transit” ghetto * It´s a funny old game! * Banca Intesa pulls out of BTC * The Memory Hole

In this EIB monothematic issue: Public Funds for Public Benefit – new NGO campaign launched * Mónica Ridruejo uncensored * EIB outside Europe but not out of sight * The IFC’s “no” to controversial Slovak paper mill followed by the EIB’s “yes” * Is thinking big the way to Stability? * BTC campaigner persecuted in Turkey * EIR for all – including the EIB * Dubious gains: the EIB’s involvement in the Slovak rail system * Access denied: the EIB’s mythical Information Policy