People’s fundamental rights are at risk across Europe. This is due to rising levels of poverty, persistent threats against democracy, widespread racism and challenges occurring in the context of migration, finds FRA’s Fundamental Rights Report 2024. These threats underline the need to ensure a strong and sustainable fundamental rights protection across the EU, particularly for [...]
The European Policy Institute (EPI), in cooperation with the United Nations Organization, successfully organized the workshop "Building Capacities for Parliamentary Staff on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)", held on March 21-22, 2024, at Hotel Radika, Mavrovo. The aim of the event was to strengthen the capacities of parliamentary staff and to increase their ability to [...]
At today’s policy dialogue hosted by the European Policy Institute titled “Rule of Law in EU Members and Candidate Countries: Challenges and Lessons Learned,” experts gathered to discuss the state of the rule of law within the European Union and its candidate countries. The event featured notable speakers including Maria Skóra from the Institute for […]
EPI participated in the 46th Pre-sessions of the fourth cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations offices in Geneva, Switzerland last week. Our researcher Angela Delevska presented EPI’s statement at the Pre-session covering two pressing issues, the challenges and obstacles to independence and pluralism of the national equality body, i.e., the Commission for […]
On December 21, 2023, the European Policy Institute – Skopje (EPI) hosted this hybrid event, conducted both in Skopje and via Zoom. It served as a culmination of EPI’s coordination efforts within the working group on access to the European Union’s (EU) single market for the Western Balkan countries, part of the Berlin Process Civil [...]
North Macedonia should make efforts to complete the reforms in the country so that it can become a member of the EU.. This was the conclusion of the policy dialogue event “New geopolitical developments and the impact on North Macedonia” which was held yesterday in Skopje with the citizens of the Skopje region. Citizens, however, […]
Western Balkan Enablers for Reforming Public Administrations – WeBER 3.0 project is a three-and-a-half-year-long regional project, worth 1.444.451 EUR, funded by the European Union, represented by the European Commission, and co-funded by the Austrian Development Agency. The project implementation period is February 2023 – July 2026. A total sum of 280,000 EUR is allocated for the SGF, to [...]
As part of hosting the Thematic Focus Group (TWG) Access to Single Market as one of the seven TWGs of the Berlin Process CSF in Tirana, EPI organized a discussion titled “Deeper economic integration of the Western Balkans to the European Union – when, how and how much?” where we presented and discussed the draft […]
The findings of the annual report on fundamental rights of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) were presented and discussed at a public debate in the Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia on Friday. This report is produced for the fourth year in a row by the Institute for European Politics, as a […]
Europe’s ageing population is ever-increasing, and our societies are becoming more digitalised. Many public services are available online, with many more services being digitalised. But EU data show that only 1 in 4 people in the EU aged 65 to 74 have at least basic digital skills. So, older people may be deprived of their [...]