13. 11. 2017 | PR, Youth
Centre for European Perspective was present at the Zagreb Youth Summit, which took place between 6 and 9 November at the Mimara museum in Zagreb. The Summit was organised by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights. In 2009, the first summit was held in Belgrade, followed by summits in Prishtina and Sarajevo in 2012 and 2015.
This year, the summit brought together 250 socially and politically active young individuals, who, in 13 panels, discussed current challenges that pose significant threats to the stability and advancement of democracy. The rise of of liberal autocracies, illiberal democracies and its consequences, populism, nationalism, the role of the youth and the millennial generation, were the main topics of the Summit.
Participants agreed that misuse of electoral processes and other democratic mechanisms resulted in decline of media and other freedoms, de-legitimisation of political opposition and civil society. They were united on common position that democracy, as a universal value, has to be defended and advanced universally.
10. 11. 2017 | PR
Between 9–10 November 2017, CEP hosts a regional strategic policy meeting to outline the priorities against Serious and Organized Crime in the Western Balkans. The outlined priorites will provide basis to plan the second pillar of the “Integrative Internal Security Governance”, where the PCC SEE Secretariat has been granted the role of Lead Partner and is in charge of coordination.
The IISG (Integrative Internal Security Governance) is a new approach to internal security governance capacity-building and reform introduced in the Western Balkan region. It is hosted by DCAF Ljubljana as of 8 September 2017. Criminal police and Ministry officials from Western Balkan beneficiaries and PCC SEE Contracting Parties, Europol, UNODC and other major international partners in this field prepared the policy basis to continue drafting the first multi-annual Integrated Plan of Action (iPA) of the 2nd IISG Pillar – the “Western Balkan Counter-Serious Crime Initiative – WBCSCi”.
The iPA will enable the WB Beneficiaries, the EU and the international community (donors of external assistance) to address the challenges of Serious and Organized Crime in the period 2018-2020 in coordinated manner and in line with the principle of regional ownership as provided by the IISG policy framework. The event, hosted by the CEP Slovenia, was supported by the Italian Ministry of the Interior, the German Association for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the PCC SEE Secretariat.
More about IISG at http://wb-iisg.com/.
8. 11. 2017 | Bled Strategic Forum, PR
On Friday, 17 November 2017, a roundtable discussion “The Evolving and Ever-present Cyber Security” will be taking place within the framework of the Bled Strategic Forum international conference in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, Centre for European Perspective and Club Alpbach Senza Confini. The event will start with small refreshments at 16h in the Cafe of the City Museum of Ljubljana.
The roundtable will discuss main trends in cyber security and ways in which countries and companies are dealing with cyber threats. The ways in which IoT, block chain and cyber warfare are changing our lives and shaping our future will be explored.
The discussion will feature:
- Mr Daniel Cohen, Head of the Strategy program at the Institute for International Diplomacy and a researcher at Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Institute
- Major General Dobran Božič, Director of the Government Office for the Protection of Classified Information
- Mr Gorazd Božič, Slovenian Computer Emergency Response Team
- Mr Peter Geršak, International Business Machines Corporation, Slovenia
Please note, the discussion will be held in English.
RSVP: We kindly ask you to confirm your participation at by Tuesday, 14 November.
2. 11. 2017 | IECEU, PR
On November 8th, over a hundred participants will attend the conference ‘Effectiveness and Inclusivity of EU Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention’ at the Scotland House in Brussels. During the conference, policy makers, academics and civil society practitioners will present the findings of two EU-funded Horizon 2020 projects IECEU – Improving the Effectiveness of Capabilities in EU Conflict Prevention and WOSCAP – Whole-of-Society Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding.
Aiming to improve peacebuilding through sustainable, comprehensive and innovative means, the projects will present recommendations around the cases of Ukraine, Mali, Yemen, Kosovo, Georgia, Afghanistan, Palestinian Territories and Bosnia and Herzegovina through a series of panel discussions. The panels will address the EU effectiveness in conflict prevention through discussions around Security Sector Reform, Multi-Track Diplomacy, EU integrated approach, inclusivity and local ownership.
“Peacebuilding and conflict prevention need to involve a whole range of different actors in society. It is relevant because much of the discussion around intervention, state building, peacebuilding, conflict prevention, talks about issues like local ownership of policies, the legitimacy of interventions and the need for societal resilience. A whole of society approach speaks to that need to include the people dimension in peacebuilding, it is not just politics and policies, it is policies, politics and people”, said dr. Mary Martin, Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Stefano Tomat, Head of Division of PRISM (Prevention of conflicts, Rule of law, SSR, Integrated approach, Stabilisation and Mediation) from the European External Action Service, will provide the official opening of the conference. After this, different panels will give insights in the results and recommendations of the WOSCAP and IECEU projects.
Dr. Rok Zupančič, University of Ljubljana, described IECEU project as a unique research, with nobody before analysing the CSDP missions and operations that extensively, while he is also looking forward hearing the results at the final conference.
WOSCAP project focused on three types of existing EU interventions, namely Multi‐Track Diplomacy, Security Sector Reform, and governance reform through a combination of desk and field research in Mali, Yemen, Georgia, Ukraine, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Guatemala and Honduras and produced a tailored set of recommendations to improve the EU’s civilian means for conflict prevention and peacebuilding.
IECEU analysed best practices and lessons learned of eight on-going and past European Union CSDP missions and operations in the Western Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo), Africa (Congo, Libya, South Sudan and Central African Republic), Palestinian Territories as well as Afghanistan with the aim of providing a catalogue of practices, new solutions and approaches for the EU to guarantee long-term stability through conflict prevention and peacebuilding with special focus on pooling and sharing as well as civil-military cooperation.
25. 10. 2017 | PR, ROSE
After the introductory activities in the field of informing and educating of the key stakeholders involved in the exchange of eInvoices, “Readiness Of Slovenian E-Invoicing” (ROSE) Action continues to develop new Slovenian standard for eInvoices and exchange hub for eInvoices sent in the EU standard.
New Slovenian standard for eInvoices only a month after announcement of the EN 16931 in the Official Journal of the EU
The European Commission announced the European standard EN 16931 with an executive decision on 16 October 2017. While Slovenian businesses currently use the standard eSlog 1.6, ROSE Action will upgrade the standard in accordance with the recently announced European standard to the new version eSlog 2.0. In order to do so, ROSE Action partners are concluding the preparation of the XML scheme of the new standard and mapping tables between the two standards (1.6 and 2.0), mapping tables for eSlog 2.0 and two eInvoicing syntaxes complyiant with the European standard EN 16931. eSLOG 2.0 documentation will be prepared in Slovenian and English language for software solution and services providers to enable integration of the new eSLOG standard into their solutions.
Exchange hub for the exchange of eInvoices for contracting entities
The Exchange hub will be implemented to support contracting entities, which up until now weren’t obliged to receive eInvoices. The hub will allow organizations to receive and to send eInvoices in eSLOG 2.0 and in other syntaxes for which mapping tables will be prepared in Activity of upgrading of the Slovenian national eInvoicing standard to eSLOG 2.0. It will enable also the visualization of the eInvoice and will be linked to the eInvoice recipients’ entity database. The system will be open in order to enable integration into various ERP systems, accounting programs, and other software solutions.
Educational activities and awareness raising
Since the relatively new European Directive 2014/55/EU brings some new obligations for the European public service providers, ROSE Action aims to approach informing and education of the subjects, affected by the new legislation, in a very active manner. We have already announced the first educative workshops around Slovenia, the first two will take place on 24 November 2017 in Novo mesto and on 29 November 2017 in Murska Sobota. Workshops aim to address the content of the European Directive on eInvoicing in Public Procurement and technical solutions that will enable receipt of the eInvoices in EU standard in Slovenia.
In order to inform the interested audiences and stakeholders in a comprehensive manner, the ROSE Action webpage was recently updated and can be accessed at www.roseslovenia.eu. It offers information on the upcoming reforms and follows the activities of the ROSE Action.
The topics above were discussed at today’s 5th Steering Board meeting of the ROSE Action, a Connecting European Facility Action, co-financed by the European Union and implemented by the Public Payments Administration of the Republic of Slovenia, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, ZZI d.o.o., Mojdenar IT d.o.o. and Centre for European Perspective.
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