On Tuesday, 21 May, six MEPs from the European Parliament’s Greens/EFA group wrote European Investment Bank (EIB) President Nadia Calviño to condemn the funding of private, for-profit healthcare providers in developing countries.
“Investigations conducted by Oxfamand others show that the EIB has, through intermediaries, funded for-profit hospitals in southern countries and that gross misconduct has taken place in these hospitals. Some of them notably blocked or bankrupted poor...