Citizens of Dubrovnik showed clear message of how to be a good citizen

Dubrovnik, 16.04.2013 - Ministarstvo pomorstva prometa i infrastrukture proslijedilo je putnièkim dubrovaèkim agencijama dopis kojim se oèituje o njihovom upitu o zakonitosti odluke o plaæanju naknade za prekomjernu upotrebu gradskih prometnica koju je uveo grad Dubrovnik 1. sijeènja ove godine, u kojem stoji da grad nije nadležan za odreðivanje te naplate. Arhivska fotografija od 07.05.2006 prikazuje panoramu Dubrovnika. foto FaH/ Damir SENÈAR/ ik

In a democratic society, it is legitimate to fail with an initiative, but it is much more dangerous for a democracy to lack initiatives and people who fight for the common good and public interest. The Dubrovnik referendum has brought up hundreds of people who are willing to dedicate their time, knowledge and experience fighting…

EUvox, EU-wide voting advice application, presented

Zagreb, 24.04.2014 - Predstavljanje glasaèkog kompasa - EUvox 2014 u Kuæi Europe u Zagrebu. EUvox 2014 je on-line platforma koja biraèima olakšava odabir politièke opcije na izborima, a od 24. travnja bit æe dostupna za predstojeæe europske izbore u svim zemljama EU, ukljuèujuæi Hrvatsku. Na slici Dario Nikiæ Èakar, voditeljica Ureda za informiranje Europskog parlamenta u Hrvatskoj Violeta Simeonova Stanièiæ i izvršni direktor GONG-a Dragan Zeliæ. foto FaH/ Denis CERIÆ /dc

EUvox, an EU-wide voting advice application (VAA) for the 2014 European Parliament elections, was presented in the Europe House in Zagreb on Thursday. The purpose of EUvox is to help citizens choose the political party that best matches their own policy preferences and enable them to have quick access to information about the positions of all parties…

Politics for people – not profit!

Many of our national laws start life at the EU level and big corporations and the banks spend hundreds of millions of euros every year to ensure that EU policy-making meets their needs– and it works. But Europe’s citizens can take action at politicsforpeople.eu says ALTER – EU. Meanwhile people like us lose out. The…

Civic education in schools – “I know, I think, I act”

A civil society association promoting a systematic and well thought-out introduction of education for human rights and democratic citizenship in schools, which goes by the acronym GOOD, on Tuesday called for support to its campaign for the introduction of civics in schools, prompting a response from the GROZD association which said that civic education was…

“Personalization is the icing on the cake of democracy”

epa04148214 (FILE) A file photo dated 27 August 2007 shows the building of the European Central Bank (ECB) behind the Euro sign logo by artist Otmar Hoerl in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Annual eurozone inflation fell to a more-than four-year low in March increasing the pressure on the European Central Bank to act to head off fears of deflation. The region's cost of living slumped to 0.5 per cent in March compared with 0.7 per cent in February, the European Statistics Office Eurostat said on 31 March 2014. EPA/MAURITZ ANTIN *** Local Caption *** 51150520

Tax havens, euro bonds and the losers in the debt crisis … these were some of the topics in a SPIEGEL interview between leading candidates Jean-Claude Juncker and Martin Schulz because this May European voters will decide for the first time who becomes the president of the European Commission.  Who believs in the power of consensus and who…