Counter Balance
A coalition of European NGOs challenging public banks like the European Investment Bank on climate and human rights.
🔗 Website: counter-balance.org
📰 Newsletter: bit.ly/486zZZs
- Global Gateway isn’t about development. It’s about advancing European capital at the expense of people and the planet. 🌍💥 A new wave of EU infrastructure is being rolled out globally. But who really benefits from it? 👇🧵 Read the blog post we just published: counter-balance.org/news/global-...
- The purpose of the Global Gateway is clear: 🚩 expand the EU’s global influence 🚩 secure strategic resources to Europe 🚩 put other countries to work for Europe’s elites. Let’s call it what it is: imperialism.
- The so-called “infrastructure financing gap” is not a social problem. There is enough public money for housing, healthcare, water and energy. 🏡🚝🚰🔌
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View full threadThe response to the Global Gateway must be collective. ✊ We need new alliances — especially with labour — to defend dignified livelihoods for all, not profits for a few. Justice lies beyond the capital's economy. Read more: counter-balance.org/news/global-...
- 📄 CSOs published recommendations to the Board of Directors of the @eib.org on its facility to pre-finance the Social Climate Fund. How this Facility is designed will determine if people and communities across the EU are supported or ignored. 🇪🇺 Here are some of our key recommendations 👇🧵
- The Facility should be firmly anchored in the objectives of the Social Climate Fund and used to strengthen structural support for vulnerable households. 🏡🪴
- 🏠🚍We call on the EIB Board to use this Facility as an example of just transition investments in the housing and transport sector, with a visible contribution to reducing energy and transport poverty across the Union.
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View full threadThis is a key moment for the EIB to demonstrate its role 🏦 📑 Want to dig deeper? Read all the recommendations here 👉 counter-balance.org/uploads/file... #SocialAndGreenEIB
