Event News Social and Economic Justice Social Dimension of EU Enlargement More Social Convergence in EU Enlargement Policy The EU-summit on May 6, 2020, will confirm the good news for the Western Balkans: the European Commission will start accession talks with North Macedonia and Albania. The bad news is: if talks and negotiations follow “the business as...
News Social Democratic Politics and Values Democracy and the State of Emergency - Responses to the Corona Crisis in the Western Balkans Our colleagues in Belgrade have asked experts, political scientists, sociologists and political analysts, to write a series of reports on the response by governments to the corona crisis and their effects on democratic institutions and...
Event News Social Democratic Politics and Values Western Balkans Perspectives on the Future of Europe From April 6th onwards, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe and the Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe have started a new series of workshops and discussions in the context of the Conference on the Future...
News Publication Publication Social Democratic Politics and Values Democracy and the State of Emergency - Responses to the Corona Crisis in the Western Balkans, Croatia and Slovenia Leaders are invoking executive powers and are seizing a great deal of authority with scant resistance. We are witnessing a curtailing of civil and political rights on a massive scale, which is unprecedented in peacetime. While there was...
Event News Social Democratic Politics and Values Investigative Film Festival: Sofia The Investigative Film Festival Skopje is on tour and its first stop was Sofia on the 6th of March under the title #GoingDigital. The Investigative Film Festival Skopje is an initiative of the Investigative Journalism and Analysis...
Publication Publication Social and Economic Justice Social Dimension of EU Enlargement The social dimension of enlargement policy: Social rights as a priority of enlargement The Social Dimension of Enlargement Policy lays out the key findings from the study Enlargement Policy and Social Change in the Western Balkans , focusing on the interaction between EU institutions and WB governments in processes of...
Event News Green Grassroots Activism: Athens From 15th to 16th of February 2020, the FES hosted in Athens a second in a series of Green Grassroots Activism conferences. The main objective of the two-day event was to strengthen networks for activists in Southeast Europe and discover...
Publication Publication Social and Economic Justice Social Dimension of EU Enlargement Social Rights are Fundamental: Expanding the Social Dimension of Enlargement The countries of the Western Balkans (WB) are facing enormous social challenges, including poverty and inequality, widespread joblessness and precarious employment, as well as a poor quality of crucial services. EU integration should not...
