The Presidency of the Republic of Croatia to the European Council 2020 - What does the presidency bring the citizens of Croatia?
“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…
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…
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…
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,…
The presentation of the first Voluntary National Review on the Implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development during the UN High Level Political Forum 2019 is an opportunity for Croatia to evaluate its current performance in terms of the achievement of sustainable development goals. The review was prepared…
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…
