It is of crucial importance in Serbia’s EU accession process, to include civil society organizations, accept their proposals, and enable them to directly influence creating of policies – concluded the participants of first EU-Serbia Civil society Joint Consultative Committee meeting.

Repressive governments’ policies towards conservative Muslims lead to their extremisations, was the conclusion based on the report authored by Shpend Kursani from the Kosovar Centre for Security Studies(KCSS) , which was presented today in Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP).

Some progress was made in the process of normalisation of relations between Serbia and Kosovo, drafting the new Law on Police and establishment of the Office for Asylum, whereas no progress was made in the area of rule of law, gender equality, preventing violence against women, protection of the victims of trafficking in human beings, systemic management of migrations, were the conclusions of the prEUgovor network’s representatives.

This policy brief analyses the existing institutional and procedural landscape for exchange of operational information and police cooperation between Serbia and Kosovo, with a view to proposing a model for establishing more effective direct cooperation between the two police forces.

The coalition prEUgovor has been monitoring Serbia’s progress in regard to the adherence to political criteria for EU membership and policies covered under Chapters 23 (Judiciary and Fundamental Rights) and 24 (Justice, Freedom and Security) of the European acquis in the negotiation process.

Laura Garavini, MP of the Italian Parliament and the founder of the initiative "Mafia? Nein, danke!" and Riccardo Guido, advisor to the Anti-mafia Parliamentary Committee in the Italian Parliament, were panellists at the discussion Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) organized with the support of the OSCE Mission to Serbia.

In Serbia, citizens are not in the center of government’s interest anymore, and security became "state-centered", it was emphasized at the publication of „Deprived security", whose author is Miroslav Hadžić, president of BCSP Executive Board.

The work of local safety councils should not be regulated by law because the existing framework provides enough space for their foundation, it was pointed out during the discussion "Local safety in Serbia: obstacles and opportunities".

In this new publication of the BCSP you can find performance assessment of the municipal safety councils in Serbia and quality assessment of cooperation between the police and local self-governments in solving security problems at the local level.