Events

The Civil Society Forum in Tirana marked the continuation of a Western Balkans dialogue platform initiated in 2015. The event, which took place on 26-28 April brought together representatives of civil society, including youth, policy makers, and academia to further discuss implications of the Berlin Process and…

The sixth in the series of activist fora took place in Tirana between April 24th and 26th, focusing on the further development of the Democratic Left 18 (#DL’18) platform, while also discussing the different tactics and strategies employed in various movements throughout Southeast Europe.

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Skopje Office and the Regional Dialogue Southeast Europe organised a policy workshop to discuss and present the regional study “Youth in Southeast Europe: The Excluded Generation” to youth policy experts, representatives of national youth councils and academia, the idea being to harness…

Organized for eighteen years in a row, the Dubrovnik Dialogue conference continues to serve as a major platform for discussions and debates for parliamentarians from Southeast Europe, Germany and Brussels. This year’s conference focused on current challenges in the European Union, analyzing a unique and first-time…

The series of Reflection Fora on the Western Balkans in the European Union continued with a panel event on 28.03. in Ljubljana, Slovenia under the title “From Rome to Trieste: Perspectives for the Western Balkans in the European Union”.

As a prelude to Karl Marx' 200th birthday, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung will be organizing a conference to commemorate the legacy of one of the greatest European and worldly thinkers of the modern era.

The fifth Activist Forum addressing the issue of public spaces as sites of democratization was held during March 10th to 12th in Niš, Serbia.

This edition of the Civil Society Forum (CSF) of the Western Balkan Summit Series took place in Skopje, Macedonia throughout November 24-26th. The forum was dedicated to the themes of social justice, democracy and Europe.

The year 2016 has been full of unexpected political moments with far-reaching repercussions that were felt also in the Western Balkans. The long-standing narrative of an ongoing political crisis has only been strengthened by political turmoil outside of the region.