(Guardian, London, 23 March 2018) The EU is looking to provide European companies trading with Iran access to emergency credit lines and funding support if Donald Trump presses ahead with his plan to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. A US pullout, leading to the reimposition of a tough...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2018/03/01
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Debt, European Union, OECD, Transparency, World Trade Organization
The full publication of this new 136 page report is available here.
Between 2015 and 2017, Finance & Trade Watch and Bankwatch, together with their national partners, researched...
2018/02/28
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Debt, European Union, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
Member: Bank Track, Finance & Trade Watch
(Finance & Trade Watch and CEE Bankwatch, Dec. 2017) Export credits are big business. Members of the industry’s Berne Union, both state and private, insured approximately USD 1.9 trillion per year between 2012 and 2016, of which USD1 trillion was state ECA insured. That amount far...
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2017/11/30
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, OECD, Transparency
(CEE Bankwatch Network, Prague, 22 November 2017) In 2015-2017 Finance & Trade Watch and CEE Bankwatch Network together with its national partners researched export credit agencies (ECAs) in seven countries of the European Union (Austria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania...
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2017/08/30
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Both ENDS
(ECA Watch & Both ENDS, Amsterdam, 24 August 2017) In response to a European Greens Parliamentary question, Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Trade, replied...
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2017/07/30
Country: Germany, Turkey
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: European Union, Human Rights
(The Telegraph, Berlin, 21 July 2017) Germany announced a series of hardline measures against Turkey on Thursday amid rapidly deteriorating relations between the two Nato partners. Sigmar Gabriel, the German foreign minister, accused the Turkish government of the “arbitrary” arrest of German...
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2017/03/31
Issue: European Union, Transparency
(European Comission, Brussels, 2 February 2017) The European Commission in February 2017 published its "annual" report on the activities of 21 member state's official Export Credit Agencies for the year 2014. ECA Watch notes that, in addition to the two year delay in its issue, the report...
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2016/06/29
Issue: European Union
(European Commission, Brussels, 20 June 2016) The European Commission has found that the Estonian short-term export-credit scheme was in line with EU state aid rules, and in particular with the 2012 Short-term export-credit Communication. The Commission concluded in particular...
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2016/05/31
Issue: European Union, World Trade Organization
(Lexology, London, 2 May 2016) The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) prohibits State aid to support [subsidize?] export-credit insurance in "marketable risk" countries, which includes EU Member States. Given the difficult economic circumstances in Greece and the...
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2016/04/30
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Debt, European Union
Around 90% of the respondents of the latest edition of the Atradius Payment Practices Barometer survey for Western Europe had invoices paid late by their B2B customers over the past year. Respondents in Great Britain were the hardest hit by late payment from export customers (46.4% of the total...
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2016/01/27
Issue: Aircraft, European Union
(New York Times, New York, 26 January 2016) Aircraft offer a stark example of Iran’s need for foreign goods. The sanctions left Iran with one of the world’s oldest and most accident-prone fleets. Iran Air operates exclusively Western-built jets, consisting of around 40 planes with an average...
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2015/11/30
Country: Brazil, USA
Issue: European Union, World Trade Organization
(Livemint, Delhi, 2 November 2015) The US has demanded ‘safe harbor’ protection for its controversial farm export credit programme from the disciplines underpinning the World Trade Organization’s agreement on subsidies and countervailing measures despite denying such a flexibility to...
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2015/09/30
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: European Union, OECD
(PortNews, Moscow, 21 Septeember 2015) The Dutch export credit agency is ready to finance shipbuilding projects in Russia, Jan Fijnekam, Customer Finance Manager at Damen Shipyards, said today, September 21, at the International Conference “Advanced port fleet - the basis of safety” organized...
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2015/01/30
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(European Parliament, Brussels, 30 January 2015) Twelve members of the European Parliament from 5 of the 7 political groupings in the Parliament have written EU Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström to express their "deep concerns about a non-paper for an EU position for the OECD...
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2015/01/29
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Brussels, 15 January 2015) European makers of equipment for coal-fired power plants should receive financial help to export it, an EU discussion paper seen by Reuters says, in a clash with the bloc's declared aim to lead the global fight against climate change. Coal is the most...
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