This meeting focused on enhancing civil society participation in the EU enlargement process. In previous enlargements, civil society played an important role in supporting the goal of accession, which compelled political parties to cooperate in order to meet accession reform goals, or else risk losing electoral support. For a variety of reasons, this dynamic is missing In the Western Balkans. Working Group meeting participants analyzed civil society dynamics in the region and proposed policy strategies and programs that might improve civil society engagement in the region.
Presentations:
Sharon Fisher: Civil Society and the EU Enlargement Process: Lessons from Slovakia and Croatia
Catherine Messina Pajic and Anthony Chang: An Analysis of Public Opinion Polling Data in the Western Balkans
Overviews from the Region:
Tija Memisevic: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jelena Milic: Serbia
Erion Veliaj: Albania:
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Robert Benjamin National Democratic Institute Clifford Bond Jason Bruder Senate Foreign Relations Committee Anthony Chang International Republican Institute Brice De Schietere EU Delegation Sharon Fisher IHS-Global Insight Nida Gelazis Robert Hand Michael Henning USAID Bruce Hitchner Donald Horowitz Ivana Howard National Endowment for Democracy Edward Joseph Ivan Krastev Centre for Liberal Strategies-Sofia Denise Manning State Department Tija Memisevic European Research Center-Sarajevo Catherine Messina Pajic National Democratic Institute Jelena Milic Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies-Belgrade Harris Mylonas Thomas Navratil Policy Planning, State Department Katherine Nicol EU Delegation Brandon Nugent State Department Christian Ostermann Paola Pampaloni European Commission-Brussels Janet Rabin National Endowment for Democracy Daniel Serwer United States Institute for Peace Martin Sletzinger Christine Tefft State Department Gerard Toal Virginia Tech Erion Veliaj Coordinator of the Opposition Parties-Tirana Tonia Weik State Department Samuel Wells |
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