Populari’s Policy Analyst Vesna Malenica, as the only representative of the Bosnian civil society sector, participated in the two-day international conference “Co-operation of the National Parliaments and Independent Bodies in South East Europe” organized jointly by the House of the National Assembly and the European Movement Serbia and held from April 3-4, 2013 in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia. The conference gathered the Parliament members and representatives of the Independent Regulatory Bodies focused on human and minority rights, anticorruption and antidiscrimination, as well as the representatives from the civil society organizations, all working in the SEE. Vesna Malenica, from Populari, was invited to present the situation in Bosnia and…

Populari’s Executive Director Alida Vračić and Analyst Goran Tirak participated at the conference “Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Future in Europe and the Euro-Atlantic Community ?” that was held on November 21-23, 2011 in Wilton Park, UK. While Croatia has completed its accession negotiations to the EU, and Serbia substantially enhanced its international standing with the arrest and transfer to The Hague of the two remaining war crimes indictees, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is in a state of deep political paralysis that threatens to lead to its increasing political and economic isolation in the region. With a new EU Special Representative (EUSR) at the head of a reinforced EU presence in BiH…

Populari’s Executive Director Alida Vračić participated in the international conference “Europe: A Continent of Reconciliation? – 40 Years after Willy Brandt’s Visit to Warsaw” that was held on December 07, 2010 in Warsaw, Poland. In honour of the 40th anniversary of Willy Brandt’s visit in Warsaw, on December 7, 2010, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Poland and the Center for International Relations jointly organized the conference “Europe: A Continent of Reconciliation?” in the Royal Castle of Warsaw. The conference highlighted the significance of Chancellor Brandt’s New Eastern Policy for the reconciliation between Poles and Germans. The visit of the German chancellor to the Polish capital on December 07, 1970 was a milestone…