The European Movement International and the European Movement Slovenia, in collaboration with the European Commission and the City of Ljubljana, and with the support of the Slovenian National Assembly and the Slovenian Government, are organising a Congress in Slovenia from 16-18 April 2009 on the role of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the integration process of EU candidate and potential candidate countries.
The objective of the Congress is to develop a “CSO’s Political Challenge Chart” with recommendations addressed to public authorities in EU accession countries on how to support civil society in their region. Workshops will refer to three conferences on civil society that took place in 2008 in Brussels, Ljubljana and Zadar. The Congress will bring together around 200 representatives of CSOs and EU, national and local authorities. It will receive considerable media coverage. On behalf of ECNL, Dragan Golubovic will attend the event and will facilitate a workshop on Donor Coordination together with Jan Pakulski from World Bank / DECIM.