civil society

Freedom of expression, the rights of migrants and refugees to protection, and LGBTI rights remain frequently violated in Balkan countries, according to the latest report by the rights watchdog Amnesty International.

Romania's National Anticorruption Directorate, DNA, summoned the Interior Minister to a hearing on Monday as the anti-corruption watchdog continues to investigate how the Social Democrat-led government adopted a decree decriminalizing official misconduct.

In this country, 49 percent of us have never been to a movie in their lives, 39 percent of us have never read a book, 66 percent of us have never gone to a concert or the theater; 86 percent of us have never been to a hobby course. The most frequent activity 85 percent of us have done is watch television, according to an IPSOS poll from last year.

Özgül Erdemli Mutlu is currently the director of corporate communications and environment policies at the Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Habitats (TEMA). Founded in 1992, TEMA is one of Turkey's most prominent and influential environmental NGOs.

While organisations financed or perceived to be linked to US billionaire philanthropist George Soros are increasingly under attack in the Balkans, Open Society Foundations says it is honoured to finance those working to create better lives for people in the region.

If you ask what is the luckiest day for a journalist, everyone might have a different answer. For me, it is the enormous chance that I am able to meet a president and a prime minister of a country on the same day. 

Hostwriter and its Armenian partner Youth Alliance via Networking offer ten journalists the chance to cover European topics from a cross-border perspective. With elections coming up in several European countries, overcoming national bias and prejudice is crucial to serve a well informed civil society.

BELGRADE - The new US administration will maintain the same policy towards the Western Balkans and continue to support the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Atlantic Council Executive Vice President Damon Wilson said in Belgrade on Wednesday.

US-based watchdog Freedom House's annual 'Freedom in the World' report, published on Thursday, identified Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Serbia as free countries, but Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro as only 'partly free'.

The Germany Minister of Finance, Wolfgang Schäuble criticized Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy towards refugees.

 
Schäuble’s remarks, which came after to President Donald Trump’s decision to ban the citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the Unites States.