December 21, 2011 - The new issue of our magazine Agenda is out

July 29, 2011 -

Hereby we announce the program of The Green Academy 2020 “CRISIS OF POLITICAL IMAGINATION AND TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF GREEN POLITICS”. The academy will be hosted on the island of Vis from the 21st till the 26th of August 2011 by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Green European Foundation with the support of a number of local partners. During five days the programme will host more than 150 people including twenty foreign lecturers and thirty participants hailing from the South-eastern Europe region.

To look through the program click here.

The program will take place in the Hotel Issa in Vis (a twenty minute walk from the port). The organizers will notify all participants about information regarding their accommodation.

Below we introduce some of the confirmed speakers in the program of Green Academy 2020 which will take place on the island Vis from 21 to 26 August 2011.

Rolf Holub

- July 29, 2011 - We introduce Rolf Holub, Green Party representative in the Carinthian parliament whose party first drafted the document (already in 2007.) on mismanagement and criminal misdealings in the Hypo bank. more»

Paul Hockenos

- July 29, 2011 - We introduce Paul Hockenos, journalist, writer and consultant renowned for covering the collapse of communism.  more»

Introducing

- July 29, 2011 - Introducing David Bollier, an activist and theoretician who explores the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture. more»

December 21, 2011 - The new issue of our magazine Agenda is out

One Step Forward and Two Sideward Regional Analyses of Climate Policy in 2010 and the Cancun Climate Conference (COP 16)

- January 28, 2011 -  Hereby we provide common HBF climate analysis of COP 16 in Cancun. For more click here

The Balkans: Energy Independence or Energy Interdependence?

- November 19, 2010 - In a globalised world, energy independence can not be achieved. Successful energy policies require inter-sectoral co-operation, supervision, and long-term public policies concerning employment, the environment, and investment. Ana-Maria Boromisa more»

From a group of spiders to a pack of starfish

- September 24, 2010 -

Instead of relying on huge capital investments, the Croatian government might focus on increasing the proximity of energy sources to its end users. A greater use of decentralized energy sources, such as efficiency technologies and renewable energy would have various positive effects.

Mak Dukan more»

"Business as unusual -Roadmap to green economy", an international conference

- September 14, 2010 - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Croatia is organizing "Business as unusual -Roadmap to green economy", an international conference which will take place from September 24, to September 26

More info here
See the agenda

How to get there

May 11, 2010 - Lunch Debate 14 April 2010

"Croatia at the doorstep of the European Union: a worrying lack of enthusiasm?"
Speakers: Dejan Jovic, University of Stirling (UK) and Zagreb, chief political analyst for the president of Croatia; Josip Kregar, professor Faculty of Law, University Zagreb and vice-president of the Zagreb City Assembly; Dirk Lange, European Commission, DG Enlargement, Directorate B, Unit Croatia, Head of Unit
Moderator: Vedran Horvat, Head of Office in Croatia, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Zagreb
 
You can download reports by Josip Kregar and Dejan Jović here

May 5, 2010 - Expert round table: Climate change and new migration flows: climate migration impacts on EU migration and asylum policy

Around 20 experts and activists from climate policy field and immigration and asylum policy took part in the HBS expert talk on climate migration which was held on 23rd of April 2010 in Zagreb in premises of Goethe Institute Croatia. Lack of coherence and coordination between these two policy settings and lack of recognition of climate migrants as the new category in the international legal framework were, in adittion to discussion on security and solidarity, two most important departure points of the discussion.

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March 29, 2010 -

While Bologna reforms might not have been the cause of underfunding in higher education or of the disregard for wider social implications of massification in higher education, it has done very little in alleviating these problems. A brief look at the process has shown it to be driven primarily by the concerns which revolve around competitiveness on the global market, which is why most progress is reported in the area of structural and administrative reform. The real substantive reforms, which should lead to improved quality and academic mobility, have not been tackled in many countries

Danijela Dolenec more»

Icesave but you pay: the (im)potence of people power

- March 15, 2010 - 'At this point readers familiar with Croatia’s accession journey to the EU will remember that a recent bilateral territorial dispute with Slovenia blocked its negotiation process with the EU. Another country that is using the EU card in bilateral disputes is Greece, which is blocking the accession of FYR Macedonia. While in academic literature the EU is usually portrayed as Janus-faced, with an intergovernmental and a supra-governmental side, when it comes to crucial interests of member states, it repeatedly fails the test of unity.' Danijela Dolenec more»

Elections for the third Croatian president are the primary motive, but also an occasion for the Heinrich Boll Stiftung, a green political foundation, to induce a political discussion about the development of political culture in the country by portraying the elections on the new Croatian office website.

During the next few weeks our web pages will offer you the chance to read reviews, analysis and commentaries of authors that will mainly focus on social and economic conditions which surround these elections.

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European future after black-red past?

- January 14, 2010 -

Still, it remains to be seen how two big political parties – HDZ and SDP – now significantly affected by the outcome of the presidential elections - will resolve their internal disputes and what will change within the electorate. Even more, it remains to see how new directly elected president will emancipate himself from his party background. 

Constitutional reforms announced for spring, continuation of the accession negotiations with the EU and decisive fight against the corruption now remain among first priorities. Country is now facing momentum where a whole society needs to be much more involved in pursuing reforms, not only State alone. In this context, integrative function of the new president can have a crucial role, outreaching broader support for the advocated change.

Vedran Horvat more»

Presidential elections as a turning point - Croatia (once again) between Europe and the Balkans?

- January 3, 2010 - However, despite the significantly low voter turnout in the first round (44%), the voters have, in addition to the general lack of confidence in the parties, perhaps estimated the relative insignificance of these elections with regards to the representative function of the future president. The results speak not only of the crisis of representative quality in society (as well as democratic deficit), but also of deep cracks in the parties themselves, which are far greater than mere fraction differences.

 

Vedran Horvat more»

Who is going to get whom?

- December 14, 2009 - Some hundred years ago, Vladimir Illyich Lenin, precisely, as well as cynically, formulated the basic problem of politics with the famous question "Who - whom?". Žarko Puhovski more»