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25.06.2008 The round-table discussion, organized under the auspices of the Civil Society Public Advocacy Initiative programme by the Civic Initiatives, in cooperation with ECNL Budapest and the Government Team for implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy, gathered about 60 participants. The debate, Institutional Models for Cooperation between the State and Civil Society was held at the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade.

09.06.2008 GONG joined the demands of Croatian journalists for the state to take more decisive steps in the fight with violent crime and corruption and to discover and apprehend those who ordered and perpetrated the attack on Dusan Miljus and all other attacks on public personalities over the past several months.

04.06.2008 Under the dark shadow of the violent incidents that took place at last Sunday`s Parliamentary Elections, the Civil nongovernmental organization launched the Macedonian campaign against armed violence, which is part of the Global Action Week against Armed Violence, June 2-9, 2008.

19.05.2008 Following the development of the electoral process in Macedonia and rising number of serious violent incidents, Civil expresses its deepest concern over the fact that the life of the citizens in Tetovo, Gostivar and other cities and towns in Macedonia are threatened, whilst the election process gets a face of an everyday terror, not the highest democratic process in the society.

14.05.2008 Zorislav Antun Petrović, President of Transparency International Croatia says a chanced was missed to completely solve the issue of conflict of interest in the proposed changes and amendments to the Law on Prevention of Conflict of Interest, primarily in terms of its effective implementation.

08.05.2008 Representatives of the NGOs gathered in the Accountability Coalition met yesterday, May 7, 2008, with Miroslav Lajcak, High Representative and special representative of the EU in Bosnia and Herzegovina and discussed the possibilities to accelerate the progress of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the road to European integrations.

18.02.2008 Vjeran Piršić, President of the Council of Eko Kvarner association, sent an open letter to Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, regarding the incident with Turkish vessel Und Adriyatik and warning of the very real danger for Croatia not to learn several important lessons from the incident.

11.02.2008 Bozidar Djelic, Vice-President of the Government charged with European Integrations, said that he intends to demand from Brussels up to 500 scholarships to finance education of Serbian students in countries of the EU. He also announced, at the meeting with representatives of youth organizations in the country, the creation of a National Youth Agency, which is required to get EU Budget funding for Serbian students.

21.01.2008 A group of non-governmental organizations from Serbia sent an open letter of the Governments of the EU Member States, President of the EU Commission, EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security and Commissioner for Enlargement, welcoming the latest efforts to accelerate Serbia’s rapprochement to EU.

16.01.2008 The Network for Affirmation of NGO Sector MANS demanded for the internet site of Montenegro Parliament to publish the numbers of official mobile phones of the Members of Parliament.

10.01.2008 The Federation of NGOs in Serbia FeNS will call the citizens to turn out at the polls in as high a number as possible, said Miljenko Dereta from the Civic Initaitives, and to support a pro-European candidate.

21.12.2007 CURE Foundation and BH Dani news magazine, with support of great many organizations, held a protest in front of the Cantonal Court in Sarajevo, on December 18, against the decision of the Court in the second level of jurisdiction exonerating Vlado Adamovic from the charges of violation of the Law on Gender Equality.

17.12.2007 Last Wednesday, at the Točka Cultural Centre in Skopje, the XO Laptop, created by the One Laptop Per Child foundation was presented, aimed to make computer technology available even to poorest countries in the world.

07.12.2007 The Transparency International Croatia presented, yesterday, December 6, the 2007 Global Corruption Barometer. The survey of public perceptions of corruption was conducted by Transparency International (TI), in cooperation with Gallup International Institute.

30.11.2007 The CURE (GALS) Foundation will join the implementation of the 16 days campaign for the fourth year in a row. For 2007, they prepared a series of educational and creative activities.

27.11.2007 The GONG civic association says that the elections for the Croatian Sabor proceeded in tolerant and democratic atmosphere, on basis of reports of their monitors and anonymous reports by citizens. However, GONG received a number of reports of election violations, especially from members of national minorities and the ballot process in BiH.

07.11.2007 During the ten first days of the 2007 Election Campaign in the region of Pejë – Klina, Deçan and Istog, the Democracy in Action monitoring coalition hasn’t registered any incidents.

25.10.2007 The Open Society Institute(OSI) from New York and Media Centre Belgrade presented last Tuesday, October 23, 2007, the awards for best reporting on Roma health issues.

25.10.2007 The GONG civic association will monitor the activities of the Ballot Day in the coming Parliamentary Elections, to ensure that elections proceed in accordance with the Law. The organization invites the citizens to apply and join the monitoring activities.

20.09.2007 The Civic Initiatives Youth Programme was selected as Contact Civil Society Organization for the Youth, under the Government Programme for inclusion of CSOs in the process of implementation of Serbian Poverty Reduction Strategy.