Marilyn Monroe serenades EIB President Phillipe Maystadt in this video clip featuring
the Counter Balance street action in Luxembourg to mark the occasion of the EIB's
50th birthday.
Counter Balance marked the 50th anniversary celebrations of the EIB by pointing out to the European Union's house bank that "Life begins at 50 - we hope."
Lilian Ikal Angelei speaks about the Gilgel Gibe III dam in Ethiopia
April 2009
Lilian Ikal Angelei of grassroots organization Friends of the Lake Turkana in Kenya speaks about EIB involvement in the Gilgel Gibe III dam in Ethiopia during April's 2009 "World in Crisis" conference in Prague.
"I want money!" - action on EIB loans to companies registered in tax havens
16 June 2009
Action held outside the European Council in Brussels during the 51st annual meetings of the European Investment Bank by the Counter Balance coalition. The action aimed to raise awareness about EIB investments to companies registered in tax havens - loans which total in the billions of euros annually. How is it that an institution with an explicit mandate to promote development in the global South is financing companies who purposefully weasel out of paying revenues to the world's poorest governments, while extracting their natural resources and disrupting the livelihoods of local communities?
Testimony of Ugandan NGOs in the case against the EIB
25 November 2009
Interview with Frank Muramazi from Ugandan National Association of Professional Environmentalists (NAPE), who speaks about the case of Bujagali Hydropower Dam.
