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Investing in Serbia Investing in Albania Investing in Turkey 20 years of transition "Born in '89" essay competition EBRD's view of the 2009 Annual Meeting Helping small businesses grow

Ensuring sustainability in a time of financial crisis Capital markets and the financial crisis Lord Stern delivers Jacques de Larosière Lecture on climate change The Netherlands increases its contribution to EBRD projects Crisis response: next steps Lessons Learnt from the Liquidity Crisis

 

Investing in Serbia

December 2009 - In its eighth year of presence in Serbia, the EBRD has invested €1.7 billion in 90 projects. Hildegard Gacek, EBRD Director for Serbia, explains how both the public and private sectors will continue to benefit from EBRD investments in 2010.

Investing in Albania

November 2009 - Dan Berg, the EBRD Director for Albania, explains how key services in the country have been financed by the EBRD since the Bank started investing in the country in 1993. The country's only airport, the main port, key roads, mobile communications and the energy sector have all improved with EBRD financing.

Investing in Turkey

November 2009 - Mike Davey, the EBRD Director for Turkey explains how the Bank is investing in Turkey to help the country become a fully effective market economy. Infrastructure, the energy sector and small businesses are some of the areas that EBRD investments are targeting in Turkey.

20 years of transition

EBRD President Thomas Mirow, former Polish President, Aleksander Kwasniewski, former Slovak Prime Minister, Jan Carnogursky, and the historian Timothy Garton Ash speak at an event held at the EBRD headquarters in London on 2 November 2009 . Organised by the EBRD and the Centre for European Reform, the event focused on 20 years of transition since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

"Born in '89" essay competition

The EBRD, the Financial Times and the UniCredit Group have launched an essay competition "Born in '89" to mark the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall. The competition is open to citizens born in 1989 in EBRD countries of operations.

Andrey Kurkov, a Ukrainian novelist and one of the judges, talks about the competition.

EBRD's view of the 2009 Annual Meeting

Manfred Schepers, EBRD Vice President for Finance, highlights key messages of the 2009 Annual Meeting. He describes the EBRD's crisis response so far and the importance of coordinating efforts with other IFIs to strengthen the financial sector in the countries where the EBRD operates.

Helping small businesses grow

Nejira Nalić, Director of MI-BOSPO, a leading microfinance institution in Bosnia Herzegovina, received the EBRD's Women in Business award for her institution's contribution to small businesses and in particular low-income women entrepreneurs.

Ensuring sustainability in a time of financial crisis

Alistair Clark, EBRD Corporate Director, Environment and Sustainability, describes how sustainability is at the core of all the Bank's investments from ensuring energy efficiency to nuclear safety and underlines the EBRD's ongoing commitment to sustainable growth and development across the transition region.

Capital markets and the financial crisis

Isabelle Laurent, EBRD Deputy Treasurer, explains how the financial crisis has changed capital markets in the EBRD region of operations and describes the role that the Bank is playing to boost domestic capital markets.

Lord Stern delivers Jacques de Larosière Lecture on climate change Part I

Lord Nicholas Stern delivered this year’s Jacques de Larosière Lecture at the 2009 EBRD Annual Meeting. He discussed the benefits of making the transition to low carbon economic growth and highlighted the importance of reaching international consensus on climate change.

 

Lord Stern delivers Jacques de Larosière Lecture on climate change Part II

 

Lord Stern delivers Jacques de Larosière Lecture on climate change Part III

 

Lord Stern delivers Jacques de Larosière Lecture on climate change Part IV

 

Lord Stern delivers Jacques de Larosière Lecture on climate change Part V

 

Lord Stern delivers Jacques de Larosière Lecture on climate change Part VI

Lord Stern delivers Jacques de Larosière Lecture on climate change Part VII

The Netherlands increases its contribution to EBRD projects

Caspar Veldkamp, Director in the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, discusses the Netherlands cooperation with the EBRD.

Crisis response: next steps Part I

What are the steps that EBRD and partners are taking to mitigate the effects of the financial crisis in the Bank’s region of operations? In a press briefing EBRD Chief Economist, Erik Berglöf outlines the initiatives underway and demonstrates that the Bank is responding to the region’s changing needs with resilience.

 

Crisis response: next steps Part II

 

Crisis response: next steps Part III

 

Crisis response: next steps Part IV

Lessons Learnt from the Liquidity Crisis: the Changing Landscape of the Financial Sector

David Shirreff, Business Correspondent with the Economist, moderated the Liquidity Crisis Panel discussion at the EBRD Annual Meeting in London (15 May 2009).

 

Robert Rekkers, CEO of Romania's Banca Transilvania, one of the country’s leading banks for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), participated at the Liquidity Crisis Panel. He describes the impact of the financial crisis on the bank and its clients (15 May 2009) and highlights a strong partnership with the EBRD.

 

EBRD 2009 Annual Meeting, London

Larry Sherwin, Deputy Director of Communications, EBRD speaks about key events for the 2009 annual meeting in London.

 

EBRD 2008 Annual Meeting, Kiev: Histories of Hope

At the Bank's 2008 Annual Meeting, Deputy Director of Communications Larry Sherwin spoke to author Andrey Kurkov, who compiled and edited a book for the EBRD entitled Histories of Hope. This publication features reflections on transition in the EBRD region, bringing together a diverse range of views on the social and economic changes that have affected countries since the end of communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.