The Presidency of the Republic of Croatia to the European Council 2020 - What does the presidency bring the citizens of Croatia?
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 –…
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.…
”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…
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…
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…
