The European Investment Bank: Accountable Only to the Market?
HEI NRI CH BOELL FOUNDAT I ON EU-Policy Paper No. 1 The European Investment Bank: Accountable Only to the Market? A Report by the CEE Bankwatch Network in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Brussels Office December 1999 The European Investment Bank: Accountable Only to the Market? A Report by the CEE Bankwatch Network1 in co-operation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Brussels Office Published by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Brussels Office 1 Jozsef Feiler and Magda Stoczkiewicz are the co-authors of this report. They are the Policy Coordinator and EU Coordinator for the CEE Bankwatch Network, which is an independent foundation legally registered in the Czech Republic. It monitors the activities of International Financial Institutions and Export Credit Agencies that are making loans in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), and is active in the following countries: Belorussia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine. The authors would like to acknowledge the assistance of Jim Barnes (Friends of the Earth International) in preparing this report, and thanks Friends of the Earth-Europe for providing office space and support for the CEE Bankwatch EU Coordinator in Brussels. Acknowledgement The CEE Bankwatch Network gratefully acknowledges the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in the production of this policy paper. Responsibility for the contents and any errors remains, of course, solely with the authors. The Heinrich Böll Foundation, affiliated with the Green Party and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, is a legally independent political foundation working in the spirit of political openness. Its activities are guided by the fundamental political values of ecology, democracy, solidarity, and non-violence.
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