Coordination of Working group for political criteria within the National Convention on the EU

Within the framework of the National Convention on the EU, a civil society platform that represents the interests of Serbian citizens in all stages of the European integration process, CEP coordinates working groups that cover six chapters and that relate to the economic criteria in the process of Serbia’s accession to the EU, as well as the Intersectoral Working Group for Political Criteria.
The main goal of the Intersectoral Working Group for Political Criteria is a faster, more efficient and stronger reaction to the Convention within topics that include monitoring the state of democracy, freedom of expression and media and other topics defined as political criteria in the process of European integration.

Other strategic goals of the Intersectoral Working Group for Political Criteria are:

• Mapping the connections between topics that belong to political criteria and individual chapters -the activities of other groups and how they are expressed through working groups – defining the so-called “meta-issues” that belong to political criteria and go beyond individual working groups.
• Mapping of existing horizontal processes monitored through political criteria cannot be classified in any single chapter, e.g., public administration reform or civil society.
• Arrangement of borderline thematic units related to existing chapters, e.g. electoral system and rules.
• Defining criteria for reactions to deteriorations in the field of political criteria and establishing a system for rapid response of the group.

The coordinator of this Working Group is Srđan Majstorović, Chairman of the Governing Board of CEP.