Nieuws

Kent u ze? Die goede oude schaakopgaven in de krant. In de krant van morgen staat altijd de ‘beste zet’. “Natuurlijk,” denken we dan, “Txf3!” Politiek lijkt wel eens op schaken. Vandaag de volgende zet.

Last weekend, in cooperation with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung office in Belgrade, we organized the second seminar of the 2013 Course for Promising Politicians.

Afgelopen weekend reisden FMS trainers Marjolein Kampschreur en Samir Španja naar Zenica (Bosnië-Herzegovina) af om een online-communicatietraining te verzorgen voor de jongeren van de Sociaal Democratische Patij (SDP).

In the light of an assessment visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina we organized before the summer break we present you the final report. This visit is part of the European Forum, FEPS and Karl-Renner-Institute project “Enhancing democracy pre and post EU accession”.

During a session of the City Hall deputies on the 24th of September Belgrade’s Mayor and leader of the Democratic Party (DS), Dragan Đilas, has been dismissed. Đilas shall continue performing the duty of the capital’s first official in the following thirty days while elections shall be held in six months. In a first reaction Đilas stated that his dismissal is a political deal, has nothing to do with what has been achieved in Belgrade in the last 5 years, and shows that the ruling parties on state level are moving the country towards a dictatorship and one-party system.

Woensdagavond 18 september organiseerde de FMS in samenwerking met de Wiardi Beckman Stichting (WBS) een expertmeeting over de Europese uitbreiding, met hoofdspreker Radmila Sekerinska uit Macedonië. Sekerinska is Parlementariër in Macedonië, voorzitter van de parlementaire commissie voor EU integratie, vicevoorzitter van de Sociaal Democratische Unie (SDSM) en voormalig interim-premier van Macedonië.

Afgelopen weekend werkte de FMS mee aan de 6e jaarlijkse Political Academy training in Macedonië. De andere mede-organisatoren waren onze lokale partner, het Progress Institute, en de Duitse Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

Despite ousting the Finance Minister Mlađan Dinkić and his United Regions of Serbia (URS) from the ruling coalition, no early elections will be held in Serbia. According to the main opposition Democratic Party (DS), that has called for early elections, the government reshuffle is a farce through which the government tries to distract attention from its catastrophic results.

On 24 July dozens of hooligans and anti-gay-demonstrators shouted ‘kill the gays’ at the first ever gay pride parade in Montenegro coastal town of Budva. Eggs, stones and bottles where hurdled at around 40 participants in the parade mostly arriving in a police escorted bus from the capital Podgorica.

On July 15, the state-level Parliament has decided to continue the approval of the amendments to the conflict of interest law in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH). The move has been criticized by the International Community. According to the amendments, authority to investigate conflict of interests will be transferred from a Central Elections Commission (CEC) to a Parliament commission, a move that could open way for corruption.