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UPDATED: New documents on European Investment Bank loans to Volkswagen

January 18, 2016

Documents obtained by Bankwatch provide more details for a European Investment Bank statement that its loans to Volkswagen may have been connected to the car makers use of cheating devices to rig emission tests. by Anna Roggenbuck, cross-posted from the Bankwatch blog. With each passing day since Bankwatch revealed the European Investment Bank’s massive support… » read more

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Corporate Europe, Transport

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Guest post: New report shows that New Kosovo Power Plant would worsen poverty and cripple a fragile economy

January 12, 2016

No-one will ‘freeze to death’ if the planned lignite-fired power plant in Kosovo does not receive support from multilateral development banks, but if it does, low-income households may well end up choosing between electricity and food. How can an institution, whose very mission is to end poverty, justify this project? by Visar Azemi, Coordinator at… » read more

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Climate & Environment, Energy, Energy Community, Energy Efficiency, Europe's East, fossil fuels, Sustainable Development

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Bankwatch

A green NGO network across central and eastern Europe blogging critical views on international financial institutions: EU Funds, EIB, EBRD. We're in Brussels too.


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