New SLAPP lawsuit by ENI against ReCommon over licences awarded to the fossil fuel multinational in Palestinian waters. The organization: “This is yet another attempt to silence us; we will not back d... Rome, April 15, 2026 – ReCommon condemns ENI’s decision to file yet another frivolous lawsuit against the association in an

🔴 ReCommon condemns ENI’s decision to file yet another frivolous lawsuit against the association in an attempt to silence its representatives.
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Billions shifted out of fossil fuels - NGOs WIN! Let’s celebrate it! Let's celebrate two major wins: no more public money for fossil fuels, nor for a deadly gas project in Mozambique.

📅 15 April 2026
🕐 19:00 - 20:15 CET
📍 Buen Vivir

🎤 Adam McGibbon (Oil Change International) & Lora Verheecke (Counter Balance)

🎉 Join us in the celebration 👇

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Have you registered yet? ❓

Tomorrow at Buen Vivir: celebrate TWO big wins 🎉

🚫 No more public money for fossil fuels
🚫 No funding for a deadly gas project in Mozambique

Let’s learn the tactics behind this successful campaign and explore how these lessons can be applied to other campaigns.

Billions shifted out of fossil fuels - NGOs WIN! Let’s celebrate it! Let's celebrate two major wins: no more public money for fossil fuels, nor for a deadly gas project in Mozambique.

Let’s celebrate, learn, and get inspired together 🎉

📅 Wednesday 15 April 2026
🕐 19:00 – 20:15 CET
📍 Buen Vivir, Pl. Fernand Cocq 23, 1050 Ixelles

👉 Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/billions-s...

🎤 Frank Vanaerschot, director of Counter Balance and co-founder of the platform “Belfius est à nous” will make the connection between how the Belgian government is using the Bank and Counter Balance’s work on the role of public investment in the EU.

Join us!

Today, Librex, Rethinking Economics ULB, and Revue politique are hosting the conference ‘Belfius: Who Benefits from privatisation? 🎤🏦

The aim is to examine the government’s plan to privatise the Belgian state-owned bank, Belfius 🇧🇪

📅 9 April
🕖 7:00 PM
📍 Paul Hatry Lecture Theatre (R42.4.402)

From “sustainable” arms to self-sustained militarisation: the role of…

(3/3) EIB loans to arms companies have to be repaid with interest. 💸

That only works if the investment is profitable. Arms investments are only profitable if weapons get sold, used, and renewed. 💥🧨‼️

Public climate finance now has a financial stake in the arms trade continuing.

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(2/3) 🇪🇺🏦 The EU's "climate bank" gave €500M to Safran, one of the world's top arms manufacturers, and counted it as climate action.

The logic: if a weapons system runs on cleaner fuel, it's a green investment, even though the military is among the world's largest polluters. 🪖💣

(1/3) 💸💣 Defence spending is having its moment. In the EU, military budgets are growing fast and with little public debate about where the money comes from or what it funds.

The @eib.org is playing its part. 🧵👇

Billions shifted out of fossil fuels - NGOs WIN! Let’s celebrate it! Let's celebrate two major wins: no more public money for fossil fuels, nor for a deadly gas project in Mozambique.

How did this happen and what can we learn from it? 💡

Join @loraverheecke.bsky.social (@counter-balance.bsky.social) and Adam McGibbon (@oilchange.bsky.social) for a behind-the-scenes look at the campaign.

📅 15 April 2026
🕐 19:00 - 20:15 CET
📍 Buen Vivir

🎉 Join us in the celebration 👇

Billions are being shifted away from fossil fuels, and that’s worth celebrating 🎉

✅ The UK ended public finance for fossil fuel projects abroad.

✅ Millions were stopped from funding a harmful LNG project in Mozambique

🎉 Join us in the celebration: bit.ly/4sFaC8G

70 organisations have written to MEPs asking them to vote against the #PCIlist proposal for a new generation of hydrogen and fossil fuel pipelines.

We call on the Commission to draw up an electricity-only list of projects to avoid fossil fuel lock-in.

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Scandal alert!
🖋️ VDL has officially declined to meet the people.
While she’s busy with the industry, she has declined the 270+ groups waiting for her. We’re withholding our ball because we don't talk to empty chairs.
Stay tuned: the ton isn't going anywhere, and we have a lot to say about this snub.

📣 270+ organisations gathered. A ballroom prepared. And the Guest of Honour? She has declined the dance.

👀 It seems @vonderleyen only has eyes for her industrial suitors.

😱 The @EU_Commission has officially refused to meet the people. #AntwerpCounterSummit

A scandal, truly.

The signing behind the talking

⚡🛡️⛏️ In the EIB Forum, discussions were not centered around housing, energy bills, unemployment, or low wages. Guess what they talked about? Did they just talk?

🔗 Read the full blog 👇

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🇪🇺🏦 A new blog on the @eib.org Forum 2026 is out!

For three days, bankers, ministers and CEOs from big companies discussed Europe’s investment future. But behind the panels, speeches and networking, something else was happening: contracts were being signed.

🌍⚖️ The @eib.org claims to be the Climate Bank. But financing fossil-linked infrastructure and companies while ignoring international legal obligations tells a different story.

We joined 14 CSOs in demanding the EIB act NOW.

Read the letter👇

🌍🤝 At the recent EIBF Forum, “win-win partnerships” dominated discussions around EIB Global.

Yet the focus remained largely on advancing EU commercial interests, supply chains and strategic priorities, raising questions about whose interests are shaping development finance. 🇪🇺💰

More below 👇

In #EIBForum, happy as the EIB says we can not go back to #fossilfuels in front of Eni lobbyist but so sad not to hear any voices against #nuclear, #CCS (Eni's favourite)

In this episode, we unpack the power relations and governance flaws in the current European industrial agenda.

We also explore alternatives to the current industrial policy. What would a genuinely sustainable transformation of the European industry look like?

Listen 👇

🎙️ A new episode from the #EUWatchdogRadio is out!

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the EU’s flagship Clean Industrial Deal. But so far who benefits, and who actually decides the direction of Europe’s green transition?

🎧 Listen: spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/0hGcv52J40b

Today, 17 international CSOs sent a letter calling on the Swiss government to stop violating its commitment to end international public finance for fossil fuels.

We demand 🇨🇭 to honor its climate commitments and immediately cease issuing export credit insurance for gas-fired power plants.

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At a moment when Europe urgently needs investment for decarbonisation and a just transition, InvestEU risks reinforcing an industrial policy that protects private profits rather than driving transformative change.

🔗Read more: counter-balance.org/publications...

Who decides that a project 'needs' public support?

👉 The Investment Committee

It approves the use of the EU budgetary guarantee — mainly assessing 'additionality' and whether the project can 'crowd in' private investors.

In theory, it safeguards public interest. But as Verkor shows, it does not 🤔

Take Verkor’s Gigafactory in France 🇫🇷

While a main shareholder Renault recorded record profits and increased dividends, InvestEU concluded the project required public support.

No binding conditions. No obligation to change business models. 🚗💨

🚨 A vague definition of 'additionality' lets public guarantees back projects from companies that already have plenty of resources.

And fails to attach conditionalities that would ensure companies invest their own resources and profits in productive, environmentally sustainable activities. 🌱

💸 InvestEU is set to become the cornerstone of the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF) in the next 🇪🇺 budget.

Yet there is still no comprehensive assessment of its impact on the real economy.

Headline numbers ≠ real investments.

Industry Support at All Costs? 🇪🇺

Our new report shows how InvestEU is scaling up public guarantees while undermining a just transition. 🧵👇

🔗 Read more: counter-balance.org/publications...

⚠️ The latest proposals from @ec.europa.eu for the #MFF have serious repercussions for int’l #development, accelerating the shift towards private finance over the EU’s mandate to reduce poverty & tackle inequalities.
How? See our 🆕report or the 🧵below: www.eurodad.org/mff_blended_...
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The 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-...