As the financial arm of the European Union, the European Investment Bank (EIB) likes to call itself the "EU Bank" and to publicly praise its environmental and social standards in comparison to other investment banks.
Nevertheless, over the last years, a dangerous setback on accountability and transparency has taken place at the EU Bank.
Back in 2015, the EIB adopted a controversial tran...
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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.