REPORT
New EIB president must channel bank’s power into rebuilding crumbling public services
The next EIB president must unleash the institution's firepower to make housing, energy, transport, care and social infrastructure accessible and affordable for a European public still enduring a cost of living crisis. We explain how in our new report.
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REPORT
EU Member States jeopardising economic recovery by locking citizens out of decision-making
EU Member States are exacerbating economic inequality, eroding democracy and obstructing efforts to create a green, transformative European economy by marginalising citizens in decision-making, our new report reveals.
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BLOG
EIB intermediated lending cannot see the wood from the trees
The EIB has invested in equity funds whose forestry projects in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Paraguay have sparked forced evictions and conflict with local communities.
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LETTER
EIB should not waste public cash on unsustainable hydrogen market
The EIB should not support the creation of a hydrogen market, stop financing fossil fuel companies and cease funding projects which damage the environment, society and economy where they are built, says the Fossil Free EIB coalition's latest letter.
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LETTER
Restructuring the EIB to meet the EU public's needs
The EIB should change its structure to guarantee affordable access to the essential public services rather than protect profits of corporations and financial institutions who do not need the bank’s support, says Counter Balance's new letter to the bank.
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PUBLIC FINANCE SUPPORTING FOSSIL FUELS
Bankwatch’s new documentary exposes, for the first time, the extent of financial support four of the world’s leading multilateral development banks (MDBs) have been providing to the global fossil fuels industry over the past 13 years.
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