What makes a good NGO Dear Editor In Volume 11, No 1, April 2002 I read your "Hemmingway" style editorial on the faith of NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe and was really moved by it. You describe a development that I - and many people with us - recognise very well. Good work! We started up a discussion on what makes an effective environmental NGO movement in the current network society. It is a very necessary and useful discussion for Milieukontakt because that is what we work for. — Jerphaas Donner, Director, Milieukontakt Oost-Europa, The Netherlands Axis of Allies Dear Editor You suggest in your March 2003 editorial that as long as environmental matters are given sufficient attention, accession to the EU will transform Eastern European countries into paradise. Well, it's clear where your funding is coming from. Obviously, less than one percent of East Europeans will benefit from EU "Re"structural Funds and other empire-building measures. Anyone who reads history knows that Western European powers take turns colonising their eastern subjects. The latest incarnation of the axis of allies has realised that all they're truly after is money, so why bother with armed insurrection when the lure of a "western" lifestyle is enough to make Eastern Europeans quite literally sell the farm. — Aurora Iordachi, Lithuania Bulletin author gives fee Tibor Farago, the author of Summit drives home complexity of sustainable development in Volume 11, Number 3, 2002, offered to assist the REC's mission by granting his modest honorarium. "I was proud to contribute to an important process like Johannesburg and provide information about it to others," said Farago, a Hungarian delegate to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. Farago gave his writing fee back to the REC, which will use it in its library for subscriptions to environmental periodicals.

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