European Union presents its progress towards sustainable development

Today, at the United Nations High-Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development in New York, the EU reaffirmed its strong commitment to deliver on the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – a shared global roadmap for a peaceful and prosperous world, with human well-being on a healthy planet at its core. A dedicated event […]

EU Commission unveils new measures to protect rule of law, Politico reports.

The European Commission on Wednesday announced new measures aimed at protecting the rule of law in EU member states, according to Politico. The package, whose central feature is an annual EU-wide rule-of-law review, is meant to reinforce existing mechanisms. Brussels has struggled to address concerns of democratic backsliding in some of its member countries. The EU’s […]

Press Release: Civil society priorities for the EU Presidency published

Forum 2020, an informal platform for non-governmental organizations gathered on the occasion of the presidency of the Republic of Croatia to the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2020, has defined the priorities of the civil society perspective. Forum 2020 brings together more than 20 organizations interested in the presidency process […]

Press Release: Civil society priorities for the EU Presidency published

Forum 2020, an informal platform for non-governmental organizations gathered on the occasion of the presidency of the Republic of Croatia to the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2020, has defined the priorities of the civil society perspective. Forum 2020 brings together more than 20 organizations interested in the presidency process […]

Video interview: Finnish and Croatian presidency priorities

During the Romanian Development Campa public advocates, Gordan Bosanac from CROSOL-a and Rili Lappalainen from Fingo ry – Suomalaiset kehitysjärjestöt compared Finnish and Croatian civil society priorities for Finnish and Croatian presidencies of the Council of the EU – they overlap in 75% of content. Find out what matters to civil society organizations and what will be the […]

Small grants call open for local CSOs in Croatia

In cooperation with Solidarna foundation, as a part of the presidency project, CROSOL has published call for small grants for CSOs related to the Croatia presiding European Council in 2020. Through the consultations with CSOs we have define four thematic call priorities:(1) Strengthening EU internal mechanisms for respecting the rule of law, human rights and […]

Croatian CSO’s finalising presidency priority topics

After finishing the process of consultations about potential presidency priorities with the Croatian citizens, Croatian CSOs united in platform “Forum2020” have started working on defining their priorities by incorporating comments and recommendations received during the consultation process. Once these priorities are defined, Forum2020 will approach Croatian government with the aim of contributing to the development […]

CROATIA NEWS: Fourth public consultations with citizens in the city of Osijek

After talking to citizens in Rijeka, Varaždin and Split, CROSOL continued its Croatian EU Presidency consultations in Osijek – a city located in eastern part of the country. The consultations were conducted in co-operation with the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, and Center for Peace, Non-violence and Human Rights Osijek – a local CSO. This region […]