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Bankwatch Mail 19
Bankwatch Mail | March 7, 2004

In this monothematic issue dedicated to the Extractive Industries Review: EIR: some unfinished business * Is this an independent, far-reaching review I see before me? The World Bank’s EIR stage fright * Renewables 2004 – will the banks engage or switch off? * Romania’s mining woes continue * World Bank barking up the wrong tree in Georgia * EBRD returns to Sakhalin * EIB gets away with it - again * Key independent EIR recommendations to the WBG

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Bankwatch Mail 18
Bankwatch Mail | April 7, 2003

In this EBRD monothematic issue: EBRD Meeting in Tashkent: Incentive for Progress or Endorsement of Repression? * Would EBRD Money for Baku- Ceyhan Endorse Human Rights Violations? * Is the EBRD Planning to Export Chernobyl Type Aluminium? * Greenfields for Corporations - Toxic Legacy for Local Residents (NEMAK in the Czech Republic) * K2/R4 is Back on Stage * EBRD in the News * Active Bankwatchers

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Bankwatch Mail 17
Bankwatch Mail | February 7, 2003

In this EIB monothematic issue: The EIB's New Information Policy: Ask for Infromation-Test the Bank * Road to Ruin (EIB's Loan for Bulgarian E-79 Road Construction) * Money for Nothing (Questions for the Benefits from the EU Phare Project in Bulgaria) * Did EIB Loans Tend to Ruin Regional Railways? (Slovakian Case) * Participation for Better Planning Documents? (National Development Plan for Latvia) * Not Too Late to Put Things Right (EIB Loan for Construction of Czech D-8 Highway) * The Balkan Stability Pact: What is it good for?

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Bankwatch Mail 16
Bankwatch Mail | November 7, 2002

In this issue dedicated to the conference Billions for Sustainability?: Conference Billions for Sustainability? * EIB Finances, Environment Pays the Price * A Fairy Tale for a Modern Airport * EU Transport Aid in the Czech Republic - Mixing Local and Brussels-Based Contradictions * Join Active Bankwatchers * EBRD Invites Public Comments * World Bank Rejects Controversial Gold Mine Project

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Bankwatch Mail 15
Bankwatch Mail | September 7, 2002

In this World Bank issue: World Bank Issue: Theatre or Consultation? (World Bank Extractive Industry Review) * Romania's Resource Rebels (IFC Gold Mining Project in Romania) * CAS: Real Consultations Are Needed; Oil Funds "Should" Fund Oil Companies??? (Azerbaijan subsidising IFC oil project on the cost of social fund) * Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline - Confusion, Uncertainty and Unrealistic Expectations

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Bankwatch Mail 14
Bankwatch Mail | June 1, 2002

In this special issue on the World Bank Extractive Industry: Anniversary of Kumtor Accident Highlights Extractive Industry Problems * Why and How?

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Bankwatch Mail 13
Bankwatch Mail | May 7, 2002

In this issue dedicated to the EBRD AGM - projects, policies: An Inspection Mechanism for the EBRD? *"We see none of the money; none today and none tomorrow" – EBRD financing in the Caspian * The voice of nature has been heard! EP Environmental. Committee opinion on Kresna Gorge * You know, investors like greenfields.

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Bankwatch Mail 12
Bankwatch Mail | April 7, 2002

In this issue:
EIB: Join the EIB: NO REFORM - NO MONEY Campaign!, Why the EIB must be reformed * EIB Funding for Enron * Kozloduy Decommissioning Fund * Are the EU and the EIB making a habit of building highways through Biodiversity sites?

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Bankwatch Mail 11
Bankwatch Mail | March 7, 2002

In this issue:
NEMAK Aluminium Work Project in Czech Republic: What grows in those fertile fields? * WB Forest Development Project in Romania: Remebering the Amazon * Sofia-Kulata Motorway Project in Bulgaria: The EIA procedure has not started at all

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Bankwatch Mail 10
Bankwatch Mail | February 28, 2002

In this issue dedicated to the 'No Reform, No Money' campaign:
EIB: NO REFORM NO MONEY! EIB: No Responsibility for Development, EIB Information Policy * EIB - a Friend to the Environment * Bulgaria: Nuclear plant or EU Membership * EBRD to Fund Project Under Legal Challenge * Clear Targets for Climate Change Needed

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Bankwatch Mail 9
Bankwatch Mail | December 7, 2001

In this issue: Oil Terminal in Ramsar Site * K2/R4 Progress * Energoatom * EIB/EBRD Accountability * NEMAK Aluminium Project * ISPA Projects * Forest Development Project in Romania

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Bankwatch Mail 7
Bankwatch Mail | April 7, 2001

In this issue: EBRD: Language Apartheid * K2/R4, Bratislava Bridge * Motorway in Bulgaria * Public Transport in Hungary * Pulp Mill in Latvia * 10th birthday of Espoo Convention * New Study on IFIs in Russian Oil Sector

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Bankwatch Mail 6
Bankwatch Mail | May 7, 2000

In this issue: Caspian Oil attracts EBRD *Kumtor Gold Mine: Two years later *K2/R4: Is the Blackmail Over? *The World Bank exploring new ways of dialogue with NGOs *The EBRD Knows that K2/R4 Is a Bad Project *CEE Training Opportunity on Globalisation *Decommissioning Fund: the Long-awaited Solution? *Prague 2000 Public Awareness Activities

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Bankwatch Mail 5
Bankwatch Mail | March 7, 2000

In this "Jellyfish Issue - World Bank-NGO relations": World Bank-NGO Relations: An Overview * A Crippled CAS In Slovakia * World Bank Aids CEZ to Fund Czech Nuclear Power * Ripples from the EIB Report Reach EIB Executive Suite * Prague 2000 Activities on the World Bank

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Bankwatch Mail 4
Bankwatch Mail | November 7, 1999

In this issue dedicated to participation: Balkan Groups Cite Investment Priorities for Post-War Reconstruction *Delta Lloyd Said NO to Nuclear Investment *Paving Over Public Participation *EU Accession: Is Anyone Thinking of Alternatives? *Czech Public Concerned By EU Pre-Accession Funding *CEE Bankwatch Network Goes West *EIB Supported Project in Storm of Corruption *Estonia to Lower Emission Standards? *Lithuanian Greens Stop Construction of Airport in Curonian Spit National Park *New Coal Power Station in Georgia *Macedonia to Become a Medical Waste Dump for the Balkans?

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