Dario Čepo: European Values and Their Influence on Democracy in Croatia

Summary of Dario Čepo’s presentation given during the roundtable Citizen’s Rights and Challenges to Democracy in Croatia (English and Croatian version): Last speaker, Dario Čepo believes that we all talk about European values, but we define them differently. There are three ways in which European values ​​can be implemented in society: through the process of …

Vedran Đulabić: Decentralization and Local Democracy in Croatia

Summary of Vedran Đulabić’s presentation given during the roundtable Citizen’s Rights and Challenges to Democracy in Croatia (English and Croatian version): Vedran Đulabić defined seven points / trends that appear in Croatia regarding the issue of local and regional government. First, the majority of citizens perceive local democracy through local elections and they do not …

Koenraad De Ceuninck: Trends in Local Democracy in Belgium

Summary of Koenraad De Ceuninck’s presentation given during the roundtable Citizen’s Rights and Challenges to Democracy in Croatia (English and Croatian version): Second part of roundtable discussion was opened by Koenraad De Ceuninck. He spoke about the relationship of local democracy in Belgium and European values. He claimes there are two approaches of europeanization of …

Zrinjka Peruško: Challenges to the Role of the Media in a Democracy

Summary of Zrinjka Peruško’s presentation given during the roundtable Citizen’s Rights and Challenges to Democracy in Croatia (English and Croatian version): Zrinjka Peruško believes that the world is today on a turning point which is triggered by the digital revolution. Technology is here to undermine old institutions and to provide space for new ones. Consequently, …

Višnja Samardžija: Support for the European Project in Croatia or Euroscepticism?

Summary of Višnja Samardžija’s presentation given during the roundtable Citizen’s Rights and Challenges to Democracy in Europe (English and Croatin version): Visnja Samardzija claims that there is a lack of understanding of European values in Croatia. In her speech she relied on the results of 2018 autumn research which showed that only 30% of Croatian …

Karlis Bukovskis: EU Federalist-Intergovernmentalist Dichotomy in Populist EU

Summary of Karlis Bukovskis presentation given during the roundtable Citizen’s Rights and Challenges to Democracy in Croatia (English and Croatian version): The first part of the roundtable was opened by Karlis Bukovskis. In his speech he said that a member state can no longer be regarded as a new member of the European Union once …

Roundtable CITIZEN’S RIGHTS AND CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY IN CROATIA

On Thursday, 21 March 2019 at 10:30 in the Aula of the University of Zagreb, Centre for Democracy and Law Miko Tripalo organized a roundtable Citizen’s Rights and Challenges to Democracy in Croatia. This roundtable is part of Centre Miko Tripalo’s Jean Monnet project entitled European Values in a New Member State: Croatia in the …

Okrugli stol GRAĐANSKA PRAVA I IZAZOVI DEMOKRACIJE U HRVATSKOJ

U četvrtak 21. ožujka 2019. godine u 10:30 sati u Auli Sveučilišta u Zagrebu održan je okrugli stol Građanska prava i izazovi demokraciji u Hrvatskoj u organizaciji Centra za demokraciju i pravo Miko Tripalo. Ovaj okrugli stol je prvi dio Jean Monnet projekta Europske vrijednosti u novoj državi članici: Hrvatska u prvih pet godina članstva …

Project Summary

EUROPEAN VALUES IN A NEW MEMBER STATE: CROATIA IN THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF EU MEMBERSHIP Centre Miko Tripalo’s project “European Values in a New Member State: Croatia in the First Five Years of EU Membership” will focus on understanding the importance of adopting, respecting, and implementing fundamental European values ​​in member states. It will …

Sažetak projekta

EUROPSKE VRIJEDNOSTI U NOVOJ DRŽAVI ČLANICI: HRVATSKA U PRVIH PET GODINA ČLANSTVA U EU Projekt Centra Miko Tripalo „Europske vrijednosti u novoj državičlanici: Hrvatska u prvih pet godina članstva u EU“ usmjeren je narazumijevanje važnosti usvajanja, poštivanja i implementiranja fundamentalnih europskih vrijednosti u državama članicama. Jednako tako, cilj projekta je naglasiti nužnost pokretanja dijaloga i …