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Welcome to the website of the Croatian Heinrich Böll Stiftung office !
Publications
May 17, 2010 -
The new issue of our magazine Agenda is out
News
Lunch Debate: Croatia at the doorstep of the European Union: a worrying lack of enthusiasm?
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
News
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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Tipping Point
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 powerMarch 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»
Dossier presidential elections 2009/2010
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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Dossier
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»
Dossier
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»
Dossier
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»
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     Announcements 

What: BETWEEN MAINSTREAM AND CIVIC DISOBEDIENCE - PERSPECTIVES OF CIVIL SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT'', roundtable in PLAN B cycle
When: 27. 5., 9:30
Where: Novinarski dom (big hall)

More information soon.

What: CROATIAN MEMBERSHIP IN THE EU - LOOK INTO THE REGION, LOOK FROM THE REGION'', roundtable in PLAN B cycle
When: 31. 5.. 10:00
Where: Novinarski dom, Zagreb
More information here

What: GENERATION DEBT AND RESOURCE GOVERNANCE,
public discussion in GREEN THURSDAY cycle
When: 10.06.2010., 18:00
Where: Knjižnica Bogdana Ogrizovića, Zagreb
Postponed till further notice!

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Hereby we present the recent report of Anna Cavazzini on Renewable Energies in Croatia.
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