EUROPEAN MOVEMENT IN SERBIA

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EUROPEAN MOVEMENT IN SERBIA

• Annual Assembly
• April 2003

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PROGRESS REPORT

• March 2002 April 2003

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Programme basis

• Objectives
• Full EU membership
• Promoting the idea of European integration
• Directing the Serbian public towards democratic
  transition
  
• Target groups
• Youth as a priority

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Membership and organisational structure

• Individual members
• The number of members has increased by 170 in
  2002
  
• Local Councils
• New Local Councils in Ni, Jagodin? and Valjev?

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Internal legal acts

• Internal legal acts
• Labor Regulations
• Systematization of Labor post
• Labor agreement in accordance with new
  regulations
  

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Membership and organisational structure

• Employees
• Secretariat 6 full-time employees, all of
  them with higher education
  
• SLGRP and Civil Society 19 experts employed
  on a part-time basis
  
• Associates about 20 associates on a
  part-time basis (Project Managers, Experts,
  Coordinators)

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Procedures

• Strategic planning meetings, held twice a year
  (with the participation of extended Executive
  Board)
  
• Regular annual auditing of accounting statements
  (PriceWaterhouseCoopers)
  
• Regular consultative meetings of Executive Board
  members with representatives of NGOs, diplomatic
  corps, multilateral organisations, the Federal
  and Republican Governments
• EMinS participation in tenders of international
  financial institutions (such as Support to Civil
  Society, EAR)
  
• Weekly reports of EMinS staff

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Financing Main partners and donors

• USAID/DAI
• NOVIB
• EAR
• C.S. Mott Foundation
• STABILITY PACT/EWPPP
• EUROPEAN COMMISSION, DGX
• Freedom House
• Office for Association of Serbia and Montenegro
  to the EU
  
• FES
• KAS
• BERTELSMAN FOUNDATION
• PEACE AND CRISES MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION

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Public relations

• Newsletter EUROPE
• Regular web site updating (www.emins.org)
• Press conferences announcing important events
• Celebrating EMinSs 10th anniversary
• Ceremonial Conference on the day EMinS was
  established
  
• (November 24)
• Preparation of the 10 YEARS OF EMinS
  Almanac
  
• Presentation of honorary certificates of
  particularly valuable contribution to
  
• our work
• Europe Day (May 9th) celebration

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International cooperation

• More intensive contacts with IEM
  (www.europeanmovement.org)
  
• Project proposal of serbian-croation dialogue
  with EM in Croatia
  
• Member of research network Bertelsman foundation

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Publications

• Dr Duko Lopandic i associates
• Founding acts of EU in Serbian, March 2003
• Group of authors Social dialog in Serbia and
  Bulgaria, comparative study
  
• Papers Serbia and Montenegro on the way to EU
  (soon to be published)

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Projects

• Research
• Action projects

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Political Forum

• Establishing connections between local
  authorities, non-governmental organisations,
  relevant international institutions in FRY and
  South-eastern Europe
• Democratic reforms
• 32 workshops in the period 2000-2003
• Membership increase, new Local Councils
  established, declarations public announcements
  on political problems

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Serbian Local Government Reform Program in
cooperation with DAI Inc.

• Greater accessibility and participation of
  citizens
  
• Increased legal and financial sustainability
• Increased influence at the level of the state
• Greater focus on citizens
• 16 EMinS experts are participating in 6 expert
  teams financial operations, public utility
  companies, IT, citizen participation, development
  of municipalities association and legislative
  reform

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Building Transparent and Accountable System of
Public Procurement in Municipalities of Serbia
(TASPP)

• Reform of budgeting and public procurement in 29
  municipalities, divided into 6 groups, on the
  basis of regional location
  
• Seminars and workshops on budget component
• Training the municipal servants in using the
  budget software
  
• Distribution of the equipment and regional
  promotions
  
• Campaign Choosing the Best Civil Servant in 10
  selected municipalities Aleksandrovac,
  Kragujevac, Ni, Novi Pazar, Uice, Zrenjanin,
  Subotica, Valjevo, abac and Cuprija
• Phase 2 public procurement http//nabavke.vibilia
  .co.yu/

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Support to Civil Society

• EAR i the Consortium EMinS-Expert Network, 51
  municipality of Eastern and Western Serbia
  development of civil society
  
• Activities - Training of Trainers and NGO
  activists
  
• - Distribution of the
  equipment to the selected NGOs
  
• - Seminars and
  workshops for NGOs and
  
• local governments
• - Special fund
• Organizational structure local network
• EMinS Majdanpek and Pirot
• Expert network Uice, Kurumlija and
  abac , Valjevo, Novi Pazar,
  
• Prokuplje, Surdulica i Zajecar

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Forum for International Relations

• Leading think tank for foreign policy issues in
  Yugoslavia
  
• Guests of the Forum meetings Goran Svilanovic
  (Minister of Foreign Affairs), Dragoljub
  Micunovic (president of Assembly Serbia and
  Montenegro), arko Korac (vice-president of
  Serbian Government), Charles Crowford (ambassador
  of G. Britain), Mihali Spinnelis (ambassador of
  Greece), Aleksandar Jakovljev (adviser to the
  Russian president) and others
• 3 round tables
• - The Hague Tribunal and Yugoslavia
  Challenges of Cooperation
  
• - Advancing into the Euro-atlantic
  Partnership
  
• - Exstremisam in Serbia
• Publishing of the monthly magazine "Forum", which
  will cover foreign policy issues (September 2003)

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Economic Forum

• Alleviating the consequences of a decade of
  destructive rule
  
• Economic Youth Forum
• Guests Rorry OSullivan (World Bank) Henry
  Russell (EBRD) Boidar Ðelic (Serbian Finance
  Minister) and Merdad Ethemad (SEED), Francois
  Ettori (EAR) i Roberto Albisetti (IFC)
• Project proposal Center for development of
  leadership and professional skills for young
  economists

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Entrepreneurship Forum

• Supporting and promoting the development of small
  and medium enterprises
  
• Workshop Entrepreneurship development in 15
  Serbian towns
  
• Educational programme Training entrepreneurship
  instructors
  
• Development programmes initiative for
  establishing a first Euro Info Centre
  
• How to Prepare a Business Plan

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Junior Achievement

• ORGANISATION OF THE INTERNET INTERNATIONAL
  COMPETITION MESE
  
• PREPARATIONS FOR THE START OF THE PROGRAMME IN
  THE SCHOOLS TRANSLATIONS OF THE BOOKS AND GUIDES
  FOR THE TEACHERS
  
• MEDIA PRESENTATION AND PROMOTION OF THE PROGRAMME
  IN THE PUBLIC

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Social dialogue

• Development of the social dialogue as the
  instrument of eliminating tensions in countries
  undergoing transition
  
• ACTIVITIES
• - VISITS AND EXCHANGE OF THE
• EXPERIENCE OF THE THINK-TANKS OF
• BULGARIA (CED) AND SERBIA
• - FOCUS GROUP
• - CONFERENCE
• Group of authors Social dialog in Serbia and
  Bulgaria, comparative study

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Ethnic Forum

• Resolving ethnic conflicts
• Proposal of 2-year global project Reconciliation
  and reintegration
  
• Completion of the project proposal
  Serbo-Croation dialogue, with European Movement
  Croatia as the partner

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Legislative organs and citizens

• East-West Parliamentary Practice Project
  (EWPPP) development of cooperation between civil
  society and parliament better insight of
  citizens into the work of Government organs and
  helping the Federal and Republican Governments to
  pass relevant proposals of laws
• Cooperation with the Legislative Committee of the
  National Assembly of Serbia
  
• Proposals of the Laws to National Parliament The
  Law of Free Access of Public Information and
  Ombudsman, on the Conference (November 15,
  Belgrade) with YUCOM
• Regional conference and visit of Serbian
  parliamentarians and NGO representatives to
  Bulgaria
  
• Preparing the visit of Serbian parliamentarians
  to Albanian Parliament in Tirana

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European Forum

• Conference Serbia and Montenegro Towards EU
  two years later
  
• Project European Forum Serbia in Europe
• 4 round-tables dealing with issues of
  relations of Serbia and EU in Novi Sad, Belgrade,
  Ni and Subotica
  
• 3 round-tables dealing with issues of
  internal reforms and harmonisation with ACQUIS
  Communautaire in Belgrade, Zrenjanin and
  Kragujevac
• Gathering of young experts who deal with the
  issues of EU bi-monthly in EMinS

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Forum of Culture

• Establishing and strenthening the european
  cultural identity in Serbia
  
• Organization of round table Identity as the
  factor of the transition

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EUROPEAN MOVEMENT IN SERBIA

• Plans for the coming year

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Organisation

• Expanding the Local Councils network in the
  Western Serbia and Sandjak
  
• Activating EMinS regional coordinators
• Intensifying communications with members
• Resolving the problem of the need for more
  spacious business premises

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• CONTINUING OUR LONG-TERM PROJECTS AND
  INITIATIING NEW ONES...

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Activities

• Intensive trainings of municipal servants in
  applying the Public Procurement Law, in
  cooperation with SLGPR
  
• Delivering the equipment (technical and material)
  to NGOs in Eastern and Western Serbia
  
• Continuing the Choosing the Best Civil Servant
  campaign in selected municipalities
  
• Workshops on promoting policies leading to
  joining EU, held on a regional basis, in
  cooperation with Local Councils and the
  Government EU info point

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Celebrating Europe Day in cooperation with Youth
Hall in Belgrade

• A series of panel discussions, stalls for
  presentation of European countries, presentation
  of student programmes, film/video and music
  programmes every evening, exhibition of comics
  and drawings dealing with Europe literal
  competition for the High schools for the best
  essay on Europe