Westelijke Balkan

This page is also available in

Displaying 11 - 20 of 50

Pages

23/03/2017
Balkan Employers' Round Table – Current Challenges and Future Prospects
News

The importance of Social Dialogue, the role of employers' organisations, the economic situation in the Balkan countries, progress in the accession process and current political challenges:  these were main topics of the discussions at the Balkan Employers' Round Table that took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 22 March 2017. The event brought together representatives of employers' organisations from former Yugoslavia (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia).

Externe Betrekkingen
10/05/2016
©shutterstock/ pathdoc
Foreign policy begins at home
News

How can Europeans build upon common values to tackle global challenges, such as climate change, migration, terrorism, economic crises, tax evasion, organised crime, pandemics and humanitarian emergencies?

“Foreign policy begins at home,” according to the European Economic and Social Committee’s (EESC) recent opinion on the strategy on foreign and security policy proposed by the European Commission.

Externe Betrekkingen
25/03/2021
Integrating the Western Balkan partners in the EU represents a geostrategic investment in peace, says the EESC
Press Release
Reference number: 
16/2021

At its March plenary session, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) hosted a debate with Olivér Várhelyi, Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, to discuss the state of play of the accession of the Western Balkan partners. EESC members showed their convincement that integrating the Western Balkan partners in the EU is a geostrategic investment in peace and economic growth.

31/10/2019
"A geo-strategic and historic mistake"
Press Release
Reference number: 
44/2019

EESC criticises European Council decision to deny the opening of accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is deeply disappointed about EU leaders' decision to further postpone opening accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania at the European Council of 17-18 October, due to the lack of unanimity between the Member States.

11/07/2017
6th Western Balkans Civil Society Forum pushes for media freedom, EU enlargement, adequate migration policy and empowering women
Press Release
Reference number: 
39/2017

The EESC held the 6th Western Balkans Civil Society Forum in Sarajevo on 10-11 July. Participants adopted a Final Declaration calling for increased media freedom, opening the doors of the Western Balkans to EU enlargement, the implementation of migration policies and increased employment opportunities, and working on women's rights.

55th Western Balkans Follow-up Committee meeting

Event
Hearing with CSOs of Kosovo*
HOTEL INTERNATIONAL PRISHTINA, RR. SHKUPI, VETERNIK
Pristina, KOSOVO

This years' meeting of the EESC's Western Balkans Follow-up Committee outside of Brussels took place on 29 March 2023 in Pristina, Kosovo, and it included a hearing with the local civil society organisations (CSOs).

The goal of the hearing was to listen to the views on the role of civil society in Kosovo as well as to hear their concerns, and to convey these messages to the political authorities of Kosovo and of the EU.

The following topics were discussed at the hearing:

  • 2023 European Year of Skills: skills, education and youth policy in Kosovo
  • State of social dialogue in Kosovo
  • Enabling civic space in Kosovo

@EESC_REX #EESC_WB

29/03/2023

Pages

Displaying 11 - 20 of 50