The Presidency of the Republic of Croatia to the European Council 2020 - What does the presidency bring the citizens of Croatia?
The Treaty of European Union (TEU) affirms gender equality and non-discrimination as fundamental principles (Article 2). Combating gender-based violence is one of the five priority areas of the EU’s Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality 2016-2019 and will continue to be so in the next phase 2020-2023. Ursula van der Leyen,…
Croatian Platform for International Civic Solidarity CROSOL, Solidarna – Foundation for Human Rights and Solidarity and Human Rights House Zagreb last Saturday, on December the 7th in Dokukino KIC held a panel called “Can citizens overthrow illiberal regimes – experiences of Romania and Croatia” with the screening of the documentary…
The beginning of December for Zagreb and Rijeka is reserved for festival of socially engaged film – 17. Human Rights Film Festival (1-8/12/2019 Zagreb, Rijeka) in which this year, due to Croatian EU presidency, CROSOL will participate as na official festival partner. CROSOL’s task during the presidency will be to…
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…
Croatian civil society organization gathered within the Forum 2020 platform, which will actively follow the Croatian presidency of the Council of the EU and advocate for civil society priorities, welcome the governments’ decision to announce the presidency priorities. At the same time, we regret the fact that the government hadn’t…
“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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
