Visiting Permanent Representation of the Republic of Croatia to EU

On June 13th 2019 representatives of CROSOL and its project partner organisations in the EU Presidency project (FOND Romania, FINGO Finland and CONCORD) visited The Permanent  Representation of the Republic of Croatia to the EU (PermRep) on Wednesday, 11th of June 2019. The meeting was hosted by the Permanent Representative, Mr. Mato Škrabalo, and CROSOL used […]

Civil Society Forum in Bucharest, forging partnerships for Sustainable Development

”CSOs need to share experiences across Europe for successful stories and best practices”, and we are fully on-board with this reflection input that resulted after the Civil Society Forum Session, within the International Conference on Agenda 2030: Partnerships for Sustainable Development. The Conference took place on the 16th of April 2019, at the Palace of […]

Croatia news: Third public consultations with citizens

CROSOL has organised third consultations with Croatian citizens about potential EU Presidency priorities in the city of Split, on Monday 15 April. The consultations were conducted in co-operation with the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and local youth group Info zona. Soon we will collect all inputs from the consultations and together with the CSOs […]

Difficult government negotiations ahead in Finland

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) won a narrow victory in Finland’s general election on Sunday. The race between different parties was very tight as SDP got 17.7 percent of the vote and 40 seats in the 200-seat parliament, and the second biggest party, the far-right Finns Party, got 17.5 percent and 39 seats.  The entire political opposition, including the SDP, the Finns Party, […]

The EU presidency trio well represented at the International Civil Society Week

International Civil Society Week (ICSW) is a global gathering for civil society to connect, debate and create shared solutions. This year over 1,000 participants from all over the world gathered in Belgrade, Serbia to discuss and learn about The power of Togetherness, which was the theme of the year. NGO platforms from the first trio were […]

Meeting with FRA director in Croatia

On April 4th, representatives of Croatian CSOs  met with Michael O’Flaherty – Director of European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. We discussed possible co-operation in the light of upcoming Croatian EU Presidency. We all have the same goal – to highlight and strengthen Human Rights as a priority topic during the Croatian Presidency.

CROSOL members started discussion around presidency priorities.

Members of CROSOL held a strategic meeting in Zagreb to define how to collaborate on the EU Presidency Project and to join synergies and activities. In 2020 Croatia will  preside the EU Council for the first time. This is a challenge for the government but also for national CSOs. In the forthcoming period CSOs will […]

CROSOL Platform members discuss EU presidency priorities

Members of CROSOL gathered in Zagreb to discuss ways of collaboration for the EU Presidency project and to plan joint activities. Croatia will preside the European Union for the first time in 2020. This is a challenge for the Government, as well as for the national CSOs. Croatian civil society organizations will work on defining […]

FOND, FINGO and CROSOL presented the common Presidency project before CODEV working party

On January 31st 2019, representatives of FOND, FINGO and CROSOL presented the common Presidency project to Working Party on Development Cooperation at the Council of the EU. The member states showed big interest for the project, expressing support and asking questions related to the project implementation. They were interested in how we could coordinate “CSO […]