ZFF and CROSOL are bringing you great film authors!

Zagreb Film Festival and CROSOL bring you the „Fragments of exile“ film program on the occasion of Croatia’s presidency of the EU. The history of exile is an endless story that has peaked in today’s world and in our closest neighborhood. Under the selection of film critic Diana Nenadić, the accompanying festival programe Fragments of […]

FRA Director joins meeting on EU Justice Ministers

“The Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU has invited FRA’s Director to address EU Justice Ministers during the Justice and Home Affairs Council in Luxembourg on 7 October. The Director will exchange views with Justice Ministers on fundamental rights challenges in 2020 and beyond. He will draw on issues raised in a background […]

EWB: Hungary rejects rule of law as a condition for EU funding

“BUDAPEST – According to the Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs, Hungary rejected a claim by the European Union’s Finnish presidency that all member states have agreed to tie the bloc’s funding to rule-of-law conditions. Prime Minister of Finland has previously claimed that Hungary and Poland had given up their opposition to the new budget rule. […]

Seminar on the Croatian EU Presidency organised by the Austrian National Defence Academy

CROSOL participated in a seminar “Upcoming Croatian Presidency – A Catalyst for South East Europe?” in Split. The seminar was organized by the Austrian National Defence Academy, General Secretariat for Security Policy of the Austrian Ministry of Defence, Institute for Development and International Relations and PfP Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes. At […]

Euractiv: Finnish PM says EU ready to tie funding to rule-of-law criteria

Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne said on Sunday (29 September) that all EU countries looked ready to accept that EU funding should be made conditional on democratic principles, he told Finland’s public broadcaster YLE. “Finland, which holds the EU’s rotating presidency, is campaigning for the EU funding to be made conditional on rule-of-law criteria when […]

CROSOL presented CSO presidency priorities to EU member states

CROSOL has presented Croatian CSOs presidency priorities to the EU 27 member states delegations to Croatia and to Croatian MFA. The goal of this presentation was to inform EU member states on the topics which civil society will mainstream and advocate during the Croatian presidency. CROSOL also presented to the member states list of activities […]

EU Presidency Talks #9 – Podcast by FOND Romania: Kristijan Kovačić, CROSOL

CROSOL was invited to participate in the 9th edition of the “EU Presidency Talks” podcast produced by FOND Romania. The upcoming Croatian presidency of the Council of the EU was discussed, as well as activities and priorities of the Croatian civil society. You can listen the full episode on this link. This podcast was produced […]

CONCORD’s views on EU support to sustainable development worldwide

In 2017, the European Union and its Member States adopted a shared vision and framework for action to align the Union’s development policy with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the European Consensus on Development. Two years later, they published their first ‘Joint Synthesis Report’ (JSR) to monitor the implementation and impact of their actions. […]

Euronews: Finland works towards goal of carbon neutrality by 2035

The Finnish government pledged last April to make the country carbon neutral by 2035, reports Euronews. Finland holds the Presidency of the Council of the EU until December, and this is their main policy priority. The country hopes to convince the 27 other member states to invest in this transition, especially the eastern countries.