The European Investment Bank (EIB)…risks backing a violation of international human rights and environmental conventions if it proceeds with a loan for the construction of five new sections of the D1 motorway in Slovakia…Friends of the Earth-CEPA issued the warning in a letter to the EIB's president...Along with 13 other environmental and human rights NGOs in Slovakia, they called on the EIB to desist from financing until a range of serious flaws attached to the project are eliminated…[N]ew [Slovakia] legislation…allows for highway construction on lands that have not been bought out or expropriated…This violates the right to the peaceful enjoyment of ownership guaranteed by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and is also in stark contradiction with the Slovak constitution…[T]he villagers of Šútovo …are not prepared to negotiate a price for the expropriation of their properties, yet this new law allows for the bulldozers to move in regardless.