AGAIN, THE COVID-19 CRISIS EMPHASIZES THE NECESSITY OF FIGHT FOR GENDER EQUALITY
This Saturday, on 15th August, we gathered participants of the program Share Your Knowledge and others interested, on Round table on the topic "Women in media and culture", held on the ZOOM platform. We opened the discussion by identifying the position of women within spheres of media and culture, then we pointed out the crucial challenges, as well as changes [...]
FIRST STEP TOWARDS INTERCULTURAL WORK WITH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
An online workshop for capacity building - "Methodology for working with high school students on the topic of interculturalism"- was held through Zoom platform on August 6th and 7th, as a part of the project "United by Diversity" Representatives of 25 members of the Network "United by diversity", talked with trainer and psychologist Tamara Tomašević about inclusiveness, understanding and acceptance [...]
Civil society and media will not give up the fight for a democratic and free Serbia
Civil society and media will not give up the fight for a democratic and free Serbia The media and civil society organizations demand from the Ministry of Finance and the Administration for the Prevention of Money Laundering to immediately present the grounds for suspicion due to which they ordered the extraordinary collection of information about organizations, media, and individuals from [...]
European Movement International: EU to Respond to Backsliding of Democracy in Serbia
The European Movement International issued a statement on the situation in Serbia, emphasizing the problematic response of the Government of Serbia to the COVID-19 pandemic and pointing out the deep shortcomings of democracy in the country, and calling on the EU to react. Along with the statement, a petition "Serbian democracy is under threat – The EU must act" [...]
Statement on the Acceptance of the New EU Enlargement Methodology by Serbia
The European Movement in Serbia welcomes the news that Serbia has officially accepted the new EU Enlargement methodology, adopted in March 2020. If there is political will, the implementation of the new methodology can give the necessary political impetus to the enlargement process, both in the EU and in Serbia. As the public was previously informed that the Ministry of European [...]
Worrisome Direction Serbia is Heading
[Photo: Sanja Knežević] The European Movement in Serbia expresses deep concerns over the aggravated situation and violent unrests in Serbia in the past two days. The politicized management of the pandemic in recent months, unanswered suspicions of manipulation of data on the number of patients and deaths caused by COVID-19, as well as shifting the blame to citizens for the crisis, [...]
First steps to Regional Green Youth Charter
European Movement in Serbia (EMinS) and its partners from the region have started the implementation of a new project – Regional Green Youth Charter, financially supported by the Western Balkans Fund. This week project partners held an online preparatory meeting, gathering representatives of all partner organizations – EMinS, ALFA Center (Niksic), Center for Ecology and Energy (Tuzla) and Democracy for [...]
Vladimir Medjak: The 2020 Parliamentary Elections in Serbia The Festival of Democracy or Legitimising the Backslide of Democracy?
Serbia is to hold regular parliamentary elections on June 21, 2020. They were originally called for April 24, 2020 but were postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak. The winner of these elections is already known since (political, financial and media) domination of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska Napredna Stranka - SNS) is unchallenged [1]. The only unknown factor with these [...]
