News and updates from BCSDN and the region
National and pan-European NGO platforms for development and relief, representing the current and upcoming EU Council Presidencies: FOND (Romania), Fingo (Finland), CROSOL (Croatia), and CONCORD (pan-European) joined forces to increase public support for a European Union which puts the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, development cooperation, human rights, and civil society space at the centre
Read more →Over 90 percent of Europeans surveyed in recent research by German think tank d|part and the Open Society European Policy Institute believe that the rule of law, pluralism, and the protection of individual rights are essential for a good society. As part of a collaborative project called Voices on Values, researchers asked more than 6,000
Read more →A Resolution on Women’s Rights in the Western Balkans has been adopted by a deliberate majority at a highly intense vote in the Gender Equality Committee of the European Parliament. The main author of the resolution and the Rapporteur of the European Parliament for Women’s Rights in the Western Balkans is the Croatian representative Biljana
Read more →A regional mapping has been produced for the project: “Communities First: Creation of a civil society hub to prevent and counter violent extremism”. The three-year project aims to empower CSOs in the Western Balkans, including women, youth, and faith-based organizations, to become more effective and accountable actors and to improve their capacity to implement projects
Read more →One of the signal events in global politics in the last decade has been the transformation of political and civic activism. Not only is the new activism qualitatively different in character from what it was in 2000; its intensity and frequency have dramatically increased. Activists are developing a new type of civic movement, applying innovative
Read more →The Balkan Civil Society Development Network is looking for a vibrant and creative individual to join our team in the Executive Office based in Skopje, Macedonia, in the capacity of a Communications Officer. The Communications Officer should have a strong interest and passion for civil society as well as knowledge and interest of regional civil society
Read more →The Hungarian government might soon be taken to the European Court of Justice if it does not address outstanding issues around the so-called NGO law. The Hungarian government has 60 days to reply to the concerns the European Commission brought up related to the so-called NGO law. The bill, referred to as the “Stop Soros
Read more →The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and business people, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean. More than two-thirds of countries score below 50 on this year’s CPI, with an average score
Read more →The eleventh edition of the Democracy Index reveals that political participation is on the rise in almost every region of the world. Whilst clearly disillusioned with formal political institutions, the population has turned anger into action, and turned out to vote, and to protest. The most striking advance has been in the participation of women
Read more →The EU conditionality for the aspiring members of the Western Balkans in the rule of law field has been constantly upgraded over the past years. Nevertheless, its impact remains rather limited. This policy study contains three sections that analyse the core problems of the EU’s current approach to the promotion of the rule of law
Read more →Landell Mills Limited (UK) is conducting an evaluation on behalf of DG NEAR of the European Commission, of the ‘EU’s engagement with Civil Society in the enlargement, neighbourhood regions and Russia over the period 2007-2018.’ As part of the evaluation, Landell Mills Limited requests feedback from individuals affiliated with the civil society sphere located in
Read more →The European Union has recently noted elements of state capture in the entire region of the Western Balkans. The term ‘state capture’ implies a state of widespread corruption in which the Government and public institutions are used, both through legal and illegal channels, to pump out public resources for private gain. The European Union has
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