{"id":20913,"date":"2016-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/preugovor-report-on-serbia-s-progress-in-chapters-23-and-24-was-presented-in-the-cities-of-serbia\/"},"modified":"2016-07-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T22:00:00","slug":"preugovor-report-on-serbia-s-progress-in-chapters-23-and-24-was-presented-in-the-cities-of-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/preugovor-report-on-serbia-s-progress-in-chapters-23-and-24-was-presented-in-the-cities-of-serbia\/","title":{"rendered":"PrEUgovor report on Serbia\u2019s progress in Chapters 23 and 24 was presented in the cities of Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t{image1}<\/p>\n<p>\t<strong>Researchers of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy presented the report of the Coalition prEUgovor on the discussion forums in Belgrade, Ni\u0161, and Po\u017eega held during May 2016. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\u201cChapters 23 and 24 are not important only for our international future. These are more questions that concern our life and the answers on the questions &#8211; do we have a professional public administration, functional and uncorrupted police, and the judiciary that is able to protect us,\u201d said BCSP\u2019s researcher-jurist <a href=\"http:\/\/bezbednost.org\/Researchers\/6077\/Sofija-Mandic.shtml\">Sofija Mandic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\tShe also added that in the past six months we have made a certain normative shift, but that a major problem we still have is the implementation of regulations and the involvement of the public interested in their production.<\/p>\n<p>\tBCSP\u2019s Researcher <a href=\"http:\/\/bezbednost.org\/Researchers\/5322\/Bojan-Elek.shtml\">Bojan Elek<\/a>, referred to the still unresolved case of the demolition in Hercegovacka Street.<\/p>\n<p>\t\u201cSeveral crimes were committed at that time-from the unlawful deprivation of liberty, through the destruction of another\u2019s property, to the police abuse. If the Chapter 24 was opened 2 months ago, Savamala incident would ran us to the blocking of this Chapter,\u201d said Elek.<\/p>\n<p>\t{image2}<\/p>\n<p>\tBesides the representatives of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, representatives of local citizens\u2019 associations and media also discussed about the need of local communities\u2019 involvement in the process of Serbia\u2019s EU accession. They agreed that the EU integration is often lead to the technically and centrally managed process, and it is essential that the local community gets engaged as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tHowever, the prerequisite for the inclusion is the higher level of transparency and availability of information about the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tTo achieve something like that, the local communities from Ni\u0161 and Po\u017eega will form local teams that are interested in participating in the negotiation process and thus, together, to seek for timely information about the government\u2019s actions in the accession process.<\/p>\n<p>\tBelgrade Open School organized the forum in which the latest six-month prEUgovor report was presented within the project \u201cNegotiations about the negotiations\u201d, that seeks to introduce the local communities with the importance of joining the EU for everyday life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>\tMembers of the coalition prEUgovor are:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"clear\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.astra.rs\/?lang=en\">ASTRA\u00a0<\/a>&#8211; Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, Autonomous Women\u2019s Center (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenngo.org.rs\/english\/\">AWC<\/a>), Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bezbednost.org\/Bezbednost\/2001\/English.shtml\">BCSP<\/a>), Center for Investigative Reporting in Serbia (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/srpski\">CINS<\/a>) , Center for Applied European Studies (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpes.org.rs\/\">CPES<\/a>),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/grupa484.org.rs\/en\/learning-together\/\">Group 484<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0and Transparency Serbia (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparentnost.org.rs\/index.php\/en\/\">TS<\/a>).\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\">\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\">\tThe\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bezbednost.org\/Networks\/5260\/prEUgovor.shtml\">prEUgovor\u00a0<\/a>is a coalition of seven CSOs formed with the aim to monitor the implementation of policies within the framework of the Serbian accession process to the EU, focusing on chapters 23 and 24. Mission of prEUgovor is to propose measures to improve the reforms, using the process of EU integration to achieve substantial progress in the further democratization of Serbia.<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\">\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"anterfile\">\t<strong>You can follow the prEUgovor on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/prEUgovor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prEUgovor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>\t<em><strong>Report was translated by BCSP Interns Nevena Mancic i Marija Ignjatijevic.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is necessary to encourage local communities to engage in the progress of Serbia\u2019s EU accession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8615,8613],"tags":[264,5181,7896,5857,7570,7447,9034,7991,8167,9373,7760,7569,3607,7888,7448,7090,7461,7810],"vest_saopstenje":[9454],"coauthors":[164],"class_list":["post-20913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eu-en","category-foreign-policy","tag-264","tag-ldquo","tag-accession","tag-belgrade","tag-center","tag-chapters","tag-cities","tag-communities","tag-encourage","tag-engage","tag-local","tag-presented","tag-preugovor","tag-process","tag-progress","tag-report","tag-serbia","tag-serbia-s","vest_saopstenje-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20913"},{"taxonomy":"vest_saopstenje","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vest_saopstenje?post=20913"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}