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…
Month: April 2014
EUvox, EU-wide voting advice application, presented
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”
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…