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Money pressures lobby tour
The EIB lends many billions every year (EUR 61bn in 2011) and this amount will still increase by up to EUR 60bn in the coming years as a result of EU anti-crisis measures. But the battle of which...
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Gaining control – a parliamentarian toolkit to get the EIB back on track
With this toolkit Counter Balance wants to engage parliamentarians to monitor the European Investment Bank more closely. The ‘EU Bank’ is the biggest public bank in the world. Last year it spent EUR 61...
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Our colleagues from CEE Bankwatch Network investigated the Kolubara coalmine in Serbia and the role of the EBRD and KfW in fiancially supporting the project. They found serious problems related to the...
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Civil society groups urge European Parliament to forget about backloading and...
photo: Travel Aficianado Ahead of the backloading vote at the European Parliament that will take place tomorrow, a coalition of 42 civil society organisations released a statement today rejecting the...
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Myths and facts: energy in Europe
With this new series of energy factsheets Counter Balance wants to introduce EU citizens to the basics of different EU energy developments. We take a look at where and how Europe and its public banks...
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The Good, the Bad and the Uncertain: the new energy policies of Europe’s...
The climate change threat intensified in 2013 with the latest United Nations climate report issuing yet more stark warnings of the inevitability of a 2°C rise in global temperatures by the end of the...
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Counter Balance activity report 2012-2013
Read our activity report 2012-2013 here. The opening letter by our director Xavier Sol as a way of introduction: Counter Balance is a network in motion. Since our foundation in 2007 we have...
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Where now for the Project Bonds Initiative?
As the pilot phase of the Project Bond Initiative descends into acrimony amid the closure of its flagship pilot project, the recent downgrading of the Castor bonds to junk status and the...
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UPDATE 7: Juncker on the investment offensive … against Europeans, the...
Labelled the €1.3 trillion investment offensive, more than 2000 projects have been identified by the European Commission’s new Task Force on Investment (made up of representatives of the EC, EIB and...
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Counter Balance activity report 2014
Wondering what we have been up to last year? Read all about it in our 2014 activity report Our Director, Xavier Sol, outlines the most important things of last year and the main challenges for the next...
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Danger Ahead: New Global Infrastructure Agenda Could Lock-in Fossil Fuel...
Promoted as a “magic bullet” that will lift our economies out of the economic crisis, infrastructure megaprojects are taking a more and more prominent role in the global development model. Governments...
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A Growing Threat on Debt: the New Global Infrastructure Agenda
Here’s the second of our analysis papers on the new global infrastructure agenda, this time focusing on the debt risks linked to the current promotion of mega-corridors of large-scale infrastructure...
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A High Risk Global Infrastructure Agenda: the Role of Multilateral...
Last but not least, the third of our series of papers on infrastructure megaprojects focuses on Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) and their role in supporting the new global infrastructure agenda....
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Counter Balance Activity Report 2015
2015 has been a productive year for the Counter Balance coalition. Read here about our achievements and our objectives! In the letter below our Director, Xavier Sol, outlines the main highlights of our...
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Gaining control – an MEP toolkit to get the EIB on track
Counter Balance’s new guide for MEPs aims at having parliamentarians monitor the European Investment Bank more closely. The ‘EU Bank’ is the biggest public bank in the world. Last year it spent EUR 65...
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