"Counter Balance – Challenging the European Investment Bank" is a campaign promoted by a network of European NGOs with the aim of making the EIB contribute to the EU development agenda to eradicate poverty, foster sustainable development and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Counter Balance is :
CEE Bankwatch Network (Central and Eastern Europe)
Both ENDS (NL)
Bretton Woods Project (UK)
Campagna per la Riforma della Banca Mondiale (IT)
Les Amis de la Terre (FR)
Urgewald (DE)
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Belgiuminfo@counterbalance-eib.org
In-depth discussion of the different aspects of the new EIB mandate
18th November 2009 (9:30 – 17:30)
Venue : First Euroflat Hotel (Boulevard Charlemagne 50 1000 Brussels)
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Opening speech: What is the Sound of One Bank Lending? EIB and Development, Antonio Tricarico, CRBM/Counter Balance coalition
List of speakers
Synthesis conference
Panel 1: Development Lending: Real Benefits for Local People
Speakers:
Limitations of conventional development lending, Nuria Molina, EURODAD
Limitations of conventional development lending – experience from the ground, Saviour Mwambwa, Centre for Trade Policy and Development, Zambia
How did we get into this debt whole? Dangers and difficulties of conventional development lending, Lidy Nacpil, International Coordinator of Jubilee South Network, Philippines
Discussants:
Eva JOLY, Chairwoman of Committee on Development, European Parliament
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany (tbc)
European Commission, Directorate General Development (tbc)
Panel 2 Private Finance, Public Money: the financialisation of EIB lending and the Need for a Different Financial Model
Speakers:
Giving with one hand – taking with the other, the danger of tax havens use for development, John Christensen, Tax Justice Network
Someone gains, but not the poor: private equity funds and the rise of private finance in public development institutions,
Nick Hildyard, The Corner House
María José Romero, ITEM, Uruguay (Case Studies Latin America)
Discussants:
Giorgio Casoni, Head of Unit, Liaison with the EIB group and IFIs, new financial
instruments, European Commission, Directorate General for Economic and Financial
Affairs (tbc)
Mr François d'Aubert Délégué à la lutte contre les paradis fiscaux, Ministère l’Économie, de l’Industrie et de l’Emploi, France
Panel 3: Energy security for all versus "energy grab": EU energy security policies and EIBs role
Moderator: Anders Lustgarten, Counter Balance coalition
Speakers:
Energy security and the experience in Central Asia, Sergey Solyanik, Kazakhstan, consultant at Crude Accountability
Aino Pennanen, Executive Officer (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), Amnesty International
Antony Froggatt, researcher (Energy security for all versus "energy grab").
Discussants:
European Commission, Directorate General Energy and Transport
Member state representative (tbc)
Conclusions: - Closing remark proposing the way forward
Registration mandatory by November 5 via form
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