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Annual Meeting of Working Group 1 on 14 May in Brussels

Lucas Maurer — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:08:00 +0100

Working Group 1 on “Democracy, Human Rights, Good Governance and Stability” held its annual meeting on 14 May 2013 in Brussels in order to receive updates on the work done so far and to discuss future activiti

Annual Meeting of Working Group 2 on 13 May in Brussels

Lucas Maurer — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:06:00 +0100

Working Group 2 on “Economic Integration and Convergence with EU Policies” held its annual meeting on 13 May 2013 in Brussels in order to receive updates on the work done so far and to discuss future activitie

Youth mobility- the key to democratic reforms in the Eastern Partnership countries

Lucas Maurer — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:35:00 +0100

A conference on “Youth mobility – the key to democratic reforms in the Eastern Partnership countries” took place on 14 May 2013 in the European Parliament and was organized by Polish MEP Pawel Zalewski from the European People’s Party (EPP), the European Students’ Forum (AEGEE) and the EurActiv w

Fiscal decentralisation crucial to promote change and effective local democracy in Eastern Partnership Countries

Lucas Maurer — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:53:00 +0100

On 14 May a conference on fiscal decentralisation in the Eastern Partnership countries provided a platform to debate the challenges and opportunities connected with fiscal decentralisation.

EaP CSF suggested civil society monitoring of infrastructure projects at meeting of the Transport Panel

Lucas Maurer — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:32:00 +0100

The EaP CSF was represented at the meeting of the 4^th meeting of the Transport Panel on 30 April 2013 in Brussels by Gubad Bayramov from the Public Initiative Centre, Azerbaijan.

During the panel meeting participants were informed of the meeting of Transport Ministers on 13 February in Tbilisi and the panel

Preparations for Vilnius Summit on track

Lucas Maurer — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:47:00 +0100

The High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President fo the Commission Catherine Ashton and Commissioner Stefan Füle attended the Foreign Ministers Meeting of the Visegrad countries in Krakow on 17 May 2013 and met with Foreign Ministers from the Eastern Partnership countries.

One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

Lucas Maurer — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:51:00 +0100

For the seventh year the One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival will be held in Brussels. The festival runs from 21 to 29 May 2013 and offers 13 new documentary films. The focus of this year’s festival is Azerbaijan.

European Parliament alarmed about crackdown on Russian civil society

Lucas Maurer — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:42:00 +0100

Werner Schulz, MEP and Vice-Chair of the Parliamentary Cooperation Committee EU-Russia, organised a seminar in the European Parliament on 15 May on the mounting pressure on Russian civil society by the authorities and the EU's response to the issue.

Statement of the Azerbaijani National Platform on the arrest and torture of activists

Lucas Maurer — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:02:00 +0100

The Azerbaijani National Platform decries the arrest and torture of three activists who were arrested during their participation in a peaceful action on 30 April organised under the slogan "No terror" to commemorate the 4th anniversary of the incidents in the Azerbaijani State Oil Academy.

Abulfaz Qurbanli, the Chairm

Call for applications - Warsaw Euro-Atlantic Summer Academy

Lucas Maurer — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:14:00 +0100

The College of Europe, Natolin, the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Polish-American Freedom Foundation have established a programme called the Warsaw Euro-Atlantic Summer Academy (WEASA) aiming to work with analysts and policy advisers from the Eastern Partnership region on systemic transformation, European

Reply on recent exchange of letters on the issue of NGOs from conflict areas

Lucas Maurer — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:55:00 +0100

In connection with the exchange of letters between the Co-Chair of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum Krzysztof Bobinski and the Chairman of the Azerbaijani Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly Elkhan Suleymanov (see here), the Steeri

Call for applications - Contest for best projects of cross-border cooperation

Lucas Maurer — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:31:00 +0100

A contest for best projects of cross-border cooperation is organised in cooperation with the Eastern Europe Initiatives Congress within the project “Lublin and Rzeszów – cooperation and use of development opportunities”.

Online conference on Youth Mobility

Lucas Maurer — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:42:00 +0100

It is possible to join a conference on "Youth Mobility - the key to democratic reforms in the EaP countries" organised by AEGEE Eastern Partnership Project online.

Azerbaijani National Platform decries attempts to create “atmosphere of fear” ahead of elections by increasing punishment for administrative offences

Lucas Maurer — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:25:00 +0100

The Azerbaijani National Platform of the EaP CSF issued a statement severely condemning a proposed legislative amendment that would extent the administrative detention period for a certain group of administrative wrongdoings thereby restricting human rights in Azerbaijan.

The proposed bill would increase the maximum p

The EaP CSF took part in the Panel on Public Administration Reform

Lucas Maurer — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:10:00 +0100

The EaP CSF was represented at the 4^th meeting of the EaP Panel on Public Administration Reform in Baku on 18 April 2013 by Samir Aliyev from the Centre for Support for Economic Initiatives, Azerbaijan, and Ihor Abramyuk from the Public Council of the National Agency of Ukraine on Civil Service, Ukraine and Gubad B

Conference organised by Georgian NP condemns practices of illegal surveillance

Lucas Maurer — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:22:00 +0100

The Georgian National Platform organised a conference on “Civil Society against Illegal Surveillance” on 29 April 2013 with the support of the Open Society Georgia Foundation and the European Union.

The European Endowment for Democracy - a driver for change?

Lucas Maurer — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:05:00 +0100

In the margins of the Working Group 1 Meeting on 14 May a discussion on "The European Endowment for Democracy - a driver for change?" will be conducted. The panel will look at the European Endowment for Democracy (EED), a new institution, which aims to promote democracy in the EU neighbourhood.

Press articles on the Eastern Partnership region from week 29.04-06.05

Lucas Maurer — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:56:00 +0100

Please find below a selection of recent interesting press articles on the Eastern Partnership region:

Andrew Gardner reports on the warning statement issued by the EU on 3 May concerning the latest developments in the Republic of Moldova, where a decision adopted by the Moldovan parliament would give itself the power

"[I]f anybody has achieved anything in practice by means of the Eastern Partnership, it is just the civil society in the EU’s Eastern vicinity."

Lucas Maurer — Mon, 06 May 2013 16:51:00 +0100

In her analysis of the role of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum's role in empowering civil society in Ukraine, Veronica Pulisova - PhD candidate from the Comenius University in Bratislava - observes a noticeable shift in the EU approach to civil society in its neighbourhood during the last years.

Statement of the Steering Committee on the Presidential Elections in Armenia

Lucas Maurer — Mon, 06 May 2013 12:33:00 +0100

Concerning the recent presidential elections in Armenia on 18 February 2013, the Steering Committee regrets that the Armenian authorities failed to seize the opportunity to consolidate public support, which will be essential to politically underpin the challenging reforms awaiting the country once it signs the Association Agr