Vučković in Brussels: Civil Society Organisation Play an Important Role in the European Integration Process

EESC Civil Society Week 2024 Nataša Vučković, Vice President of ALDA and General Secretary of CDF participated in the EESC Civil Society Week 2024 in Brussels. Vučković spoke on the panel session: Civil Society for Democracy in Candidate Countries about the role civil society plays in EU candidate countries and opportunities for enhancing cooperation with CSOs operating in the European Union. “Civil society reminds politicians that the process of European integration is not only driven by economic progress, which many emphasise as the most important objective, but it is a transformative process that should provide us with democracy, accountable and…

OP-ED: Where the EU has benefits, the Western Balkans has potential

Regional Youth Dialogue for Europe project by Ognjen Markovic, Team Leader of the RCC’s Western Balkans Youth Lab project I was 13 years old when the first person from my close-knit circle of family announced she was leaving Montenegro. Back then I was not yet aware that it was the beginning of a ‘trend’ and that over the next few years I would keep witnessing more and more people I know leaving our homeland to find a living in the EU. Reading that 71% of young people from the Western Balkans would consider working and living abroad, I was struck…