Croatia

Croatia will preside the European Council from Jan -June 2020

Croatia will preside the European Council for the first time as a newest EU member state. This is a huge challenge as for the state administration as for the CSOs. They have both started preparations for this task.

Civil society and presidency

CROSOL has initiated national civil society FORUM 2020 as a platform of CSOs interested to participate, promote and monitor presiding. At the moment FORUM has 23 members and has started national consultations about potential presidency priorities from the perspective of citizens. Some forthcoming activities are:

Consultation with citizens

..about potential presidency priority topics. What we, as a citizens are thinking is important to put on EU agenda.

Establishing media HUB

… involve media in critical and objective coverage of presidencies

Monitoring government preparations

… for the presidency. Ensure citizens voices are important.

Latest News

CROSOL and FOND participated at 39th Workshop of the PfP Consortium Study Group “Regional Stability in South East Europe”

Sep 30, 2019

Representatives of CROSOL and FOND participated at 39th Workshop of the PfP Consortium Study Group "Regional Stability in South East Europe" held in Split, Croatia. The topic of the workshop was "Croatia's Upcoming EU Presidency - A Catalyst for South East Europe?"....

CROSOL presented CSO presidency priorities to EU member states

Sep 13, 2019

CROSOL has presented Croatian CSOs presidency priorities to the EU 27 member states delegations to Croatia and to Croatian MFA. The goal of this presentation was to inform EU member states on the topics which civil society will mainstream and advocate during the...