Western Balkans
For almost three decades (1992), the Friedrich Naumann Foundation has been active for freedom in the Western Balkans and supports the countries on their way to a united Europe. From her project office in Belgrade she coordinates her political education work and advice in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo. Together with her partners from politics, science and civil society, she works primarily on the topics of human and civil rights, digital and open society, democracy and the rule of law as well as communicating political strategies and market-economy structures.
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Women - Power - Politics
In our new series of interviews, we ask women from different professional and political perspectives how they categorize and evaluate topics that essentially revolve around equal rights, equality and self-determination.
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New President of Kosovo
The popular lawyer Vjosa Osmani was elected as Kosovo's new president on Easter Sunday by a narrow but ultimately clear vote. She had previously held the presidency on a provisional basis for several months.
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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Serbian Economy in 2020
The Corona crisis has kept the world on tenterhooks for well over a year now. This poses great challenges for states and societies. This paper, "The Impact of COVID-19 on the Serbian Economy in 2020", by the well-known economist Mihailo Gajić, examines and describes the effects in Serbia and offers recommendations from a liberal perspective.
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Albin Kurti: Act Two!
Now Kosovo's "eternal rebel" has once again taken over the reins of power in the country, which was badly shaken by the Corona crisis, after a brilliant election victory and thus a much better chance than a year ago. It is the first time in Kosovo's post-war parliamentary period that a political party has won almost half of the seats in parliament: 58 out of 120 parliamentary mandates.
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Smart Local Communities in BiH
As part of a regional project, a team of experts led by Dr. Nasiha Pozder undertook a comprehensive analysis of smart solutions in local communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is fist such attempt and the results will serve as an excellent basis for future projects in this domain.
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How open data can create more resilient cities
"Smart beyond Cities: Innovation - Resilience - Sustainability" was the motto of the Smart City Festival in October 2020 in Belgrade. At this event, digital expert Victoria Boeck from the Technology Foundation Berlin gave a very interesting keynote, which is now available in an expanded form as a paper. It is an introduction to the concept of urban resilience and underlines the importance of Open Data.
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A step ahead or a Potemkin reform village?
Is Serbia`s new Media Strategy 2020-25, adopted a year ago, just a paper tiger or an important step towards safeguarding the threatened freedom of the press? The years of struggle for the document, and also the experience with the first Media Strategy adopted ten years ago, have confirmed above all that paper is very patient in the Balkans.
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Is the Coronavirus Crisis a Crisis of Liberalism?
Individual freedom always includes responsibility for its socially and ecologically sustainable use. In each case, he has said, which and whose freedoms should be given priority must be weighed up. According to Dierksmeier, it is the quality - and not the quantity - of our freedoms that matters most. After all, freedom does not mean maximising the options of the few, but optimising the opportunities of all global citizens.
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Women - Power - Politics
Women around the world are still structurally disadvantaged in many ways, excluded from certain activities or not paid the same for the same work; they make up about 50 per cent of the population, but are still underrepresented in many areas - especially in leadership positions: whether in politics, business or science.
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The Western Balkans in the geostrategic power game
Like a catalyst, the Corona Crisis has favoured a "trend towards autocratization". Russia and China are gaining more influence via the supply of vaccines to the West Balkans. A leaning of South-East European countries always more autocrat allies is beckoning increasingly likely, concludes Michael Roick doe the German Daily Mirror.
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„A Rocky Road and the Path ahead“
Die Stiftung und ihre Partner in der Region unterstützen rurale Gebiete dabei, essenzielle „smarte“ Lösungsansätze und Dienste für Bürger zu konzipieren und umzusetzen. Klimasensible „Smart City“-Konzepte sollen für den ländlichen Raum angepasst werden und in Zukunft den negativen Entwicklungstrends in den ländlichen Lebensräumen entgegengewirkten – z.B. durch nachhaltigere digitale Dienste für Bürger.
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Dayton at 25
During October and November 2020 FNF organized a polling of 1529 young people in Bosnia (aged 18 to 30), which was conducted by Valicon online. The idea was to get a glimpse into the minds of young people at 25th Dayton anniversary.
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COVID-19 - Economic Perspective for Bosnia and Hercegovina
Within the second report of the FNF Foundation, entitled Covid-19, the economic perspective of Bosnia and Herzegovina, we try to offer reviews and solutions with a long-term perspective in the (post) Covid-19 era. As in the first report, measures for all levels of government in Bosnia and Herzegovina are listed, but now they are not short-term intervention measures, but long-term frameworks for action.
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After the resignation of President Thaci
The president of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, resigned six months before the end of his term of office to face charges of war crimes brought by the professional chambers in The Hague.
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Smart City Festival 2020
Can smart solutions, digital transformation processes and adaptive innovation prepare societies for global crises like COVID-19 and beyond? This essential question guided the 4th international SMART CITY FESTIVAL 2020.
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