The European Investment Bank, the EU's house bank, has just published a shocking new draft of its transparency policy that would allow it to continue keeping one third of its lending secret and hiding decision-making from public scrutiny.
This week, the bank's board of directors, comprised of European Commission and member state representatives, will decide on the policy. It must seize this opportunity to salvage the EU bank's image by drastically improving the bank's information discl...
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Pippa Gallop is southeast Europe energy advisor specialising in coal and hydropower in the Western Balkans and Aleksandra Antonowicz-Cyglicka specialises in human rights due diligence of the financial institutions, both at CEE Bankwatch Network.