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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Remorkeri gase pozar na brodu blizu istarske obale

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.