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 Kick-off Meeting: European Values in a New Member State

On Thursday, December 20, 2018 in Centre Miko Tripalo’s conference room, Members of the Project Team participated in a Kick-off Meeting of the Centre’s Jean Monnet project European Values in a New Member State: Croatia in the First Five Years of EU Membership. In the process of developing the Jean Monnet project proposal, we harnesed …

Početni sastanak projekta: Europske vrijednosti u novoj državi članici

U četvrtak, 20. prosinca 2018., u prostorijama Centra za demokraciju i pravo Miko Tripalo održan je početni sastanak Jean Monnet projekta Europske vrijednosti u novoj državi članici: Hrvatska u prvih pet godina članstva u EU. U procesu predlaganja projekta, Centar Miko Tripalo nastojao je potencirati sinergiju znanja, stručnosti i ideja naših članova te ih na …

Najava publikacije: EUROPEAN VALUES AND CROATIAN SOCIETY

U sklopu projekta Europske vrijednosti u novoj državi članici: Hrvatska u prvih pet godina članstva u EU, Centar za demokraciju i pravo Miko Tripalo planira objaviti knjigu EUROPEAN VALUES AND CROATIAN SOCIETY. Publikacija će biti usmjerena prema organizacijama civilnog društva i akademskoj zajednici, osobito prema profesorima koji žele uključiti europske teme u svoj rad i …