Alida Vračić, Populari’s Executive Director participated in the international round table discussion “The EU in a Changing Global Environment: What Next for EU’s Neighbors” iwithin the Sofia Platform 2015, organized by the European Council on Foreign Relations, Sofia Platform and Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, held on 23 July 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Source: Populari, 2015 The round table “The EU in a Changing Global Environment: What Next for EU’s Neighbors” aimed to stir discussion and new ideas on the revision and the amendments to the EU Global Strategy on Foreign Policy and Security, including the situation in the Balkans, Turkey and the Eastern neighborhood. Alida Vračić participated in this international round table discussion with…

On the occasion of the publishing of the “Thinking 4 Governance” project joint report, Populari organized a presentation titled “Civil Society in the EU Integration of the Western Balkans ” which was held on Thursday, 13 November 2014 in the European Union Info Center (EUIC) in Sarajevo. Aside from Populari, the BiH partners of the Polish Institute of International Affairs, the organisation that implemented the project, were the Center for Security Studies and Vaša Prava — Legal Aid Network. The event gathered representatives of the BiH government institutions, Delegation of EU to the BiH, embassies of Visegrad countries in BiH, and in small numbers also CSOs. After introductory speech of Tomasz Żornaczuk, editor of the publication…

Throughout 2014, Populari’s Policy Researcher Katarina Cvikl participated in TRAIN programme (Think Tanks Providing Research and Advice through Interaction and Networking) of the German Council of Foreign Relations (DGAP). The final gathering of the participants took place in Brussels, Belgium, between 2 and 6 November 2014. After two seminars, organised this year in Belgrade and in Berlin, policy researchers from Western Balkan think tanks that are taking part in this year’s TRAIN programme met again in Brussels. This time, their wrap-up gathering allowed them to think of the final messages of their policy papers and present them to EU decision-makers. During a three day seminar participants had the chance to establish contacts…