»»August 2008.

European Movement in Serbia 4 years in a roll conducts project "Travell to Europe" that gives the opportunity to the best students to travel through Europe and to get to know different nacionalities and cultures.
European Movement congradulates them once again on a success and wishes them to continue the way towards they have already taken steps, and that is European way.

»»May 2008.

...that consisted of activities as follows:
- At 1 pm a competition in maze between high Schools started. Two kinds of maze were printed for this ocassion: one with a map of EU, and the other with main square of city of Zrenjanin.
- Promotional materials was distributed and it consisted of: T-shirts (feemale and male) wit the logo of the campaign, leaflets, stickers, baloons, badges, notebooks, pens, bags with the logo of campaign, caps, posters...
During the campaign citizens had a lot of interesting questions on which our activists answered gladly.
Same action was organised in Perlez. For children from primary school in maze competition.

 

»»May 2008.

At 1 o'clock in the afternoon in a city garden there was a concert. The programe was as follows:
1. Choir of High School Josif Marinkovic - the winer of this year European competition of mixed choires in Belgium.
2. Girl singing troup KUD PETEFI - Zrenjanin
3. The Ansambl Arhaik
4. KUD Elemir

»»May 2008.

Helena Dekanj started her presentation with the words "Think globaly act localy". She promoted nacional youth strategy which is being woted for in the government.
Vladimir Kozbasic emphesized that conversation about youth and europe is that we now have the posibillity to use its advantages.
Vojislav MIlosevic started his presentation with the story of new passports and putting Serbia on white shengen list. After that he talked about programme of European Movement "Travelling in Europe", that is bon his own opinion definently changes the opinion of young people
because on all of their journeys they can see something new, and by that they can bring something new - from the kerb, to the desk officers and their relations towards citizens.
After discussion with the citizens a movie "Imagine life" was played, and after that we continued informal conversation with the citizens.

»»May 2008.

The Campaign "I coose Europe - I see the future" is positive and educational, and its main goac is to inform citizens about advantages of joining european familly, but movement towards action of all europe oriented citizens as well, in order to rise the level of european awareness as well as to stabilise democratic institutions in our country. With this we will contribute towards persistation of Serbia on european way, as the only democratic and economic progress of our country.

»»April 2008.

Sinisa Mitrovic started his speach with a conclusion that the job od preservation of enviroment is a noble job. He gave an answer to a question "Why does Serbia need European Process?" with next sentence: Our evaluation at this point is that we are late for 30 years regarding protection of enviroment. Only 0.2 % is being separated from the budget for protection of enviroment in Serbia. In romania, Bulgaria, even in Albania this procent is 1%. We don't have prepared economy that can deal with the sustainable production.
Dusan Stokic emphasised that we have to deal with protection of the enviroment not only twice a year - on the day of protection of enviroment, and planet Earth day, but every day. The man is the bigest pollutant of the planet Earth. We have to ask a question: Do we, and to which extent can we develope as a society but at the same time not to endager the enviroment. The message he sent is as follows: Everyone should work togetherin their local community, NGOs, Government, companies and firms.
Dragana Vujinov presented funds that are available within protection of the enviroment through IPA funds.

»»April 2008.

Mr. Sabic presented programme of decentralisation in transitional countries, with look back on the current situation in Serbia. He emphasized that thecore of the idea of decentralisation is economic independence. Zrenjanin has during the last years of last century lost its property and that's something that has to be given back in order to achieve economic independence and so that decentralisation process can begin.
Mr. Denda ephasized that the core problem of our society is centralised system of governance which is not good. For example, the money from the investment fund is not being controled by experts, but by 14 ministers, so almost no programme for support of SMEs was conducted. Europe is giving us road, it is up to us if we will take that roud or not.
Mr. Hauser aksed a question at the beginning of his speach: What do I as an individual have from the EU? He, after that, gave the answer to this question and emphasized that the EU is the bigest project of peace and solidarity in Europe that we have ever had. All member states are trully equal partners.
EU first of all gives us freedom of movement, employment and education.

»»April 2008.

Jelena Kleut has opened the speech with a question: Do you know what is EU? After answers she emphasized that the EU is not only tourism destination, but something that gives and asks for practice. Europe wants fluency of young people, but not the kind of one direction. It is important that we have to realize that we should work on our workplaces, but to have the possibility to travel and get to know different cultures, and all that gives us the EU.
Jovan Petrovic emphasized that young people in Serbia have the great possibility for traveling through European volunteering camps, but that Serbia is a xenophobic place and that people change their opinion only when they see the outer world. He said that last year in Serbia, there was over 300 volunteers from all over the world. There will be 19 camps organized in Serbia this year. There are different camps, but the most frequent are those regarding environmental protection.
Helena Dekanj presented Pozorisni Klub program as well as the movement New Optimism. She also presented strategy for youth that is being organized in Zrenjanin by Novi Optimizam and Mastaliste. On the initiative of young people there is one committee formed that conducts this strategy. All can be seen on www.zamislizivot.org

»»April 2008.

Pavle Djukic started his speech with presentation of Pancevo hymn that young people from Pancevo made for their city. This spot had possitive comments so the atmosphere was quite pleasant from the start.
Mr. Djukic draw a parallel between Pancevo and Novi Becej as tourism destinations that have great potential for development of tourism because both cities lie on the rivers with excellent and beautiful river banks.
Ana Pandzic presented tourism promotion concept of Vojvodina “Integrated tourism offer of Vojvodina”, where as she explained which are the potentials of Vojvodia as tourism destination that would be interesting for domestic as well as for foreign tourists.
She said that on fortunately there is no unique and joint tourism offer, but each community has its own.
Sasa Dujin presented what group PAAD does in the matter of tourism promotion in Novi Becej municipality.

»»April 2008.

Guests
Jelica Minic- European Movement in Serbia
Branko Budimir – European Integration Office
Branko Lukic – Regional Chamber of commerce Zrenjanin
Citizens' questions:
1. Do you, perhaps have the information when will the law of regional development enter the parliament procedure?
2. Does international cooperation exists with other counries beside Romania, such as Croatioa, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Slovenia...?
3. Do you think that Serbia has institutional capacities on a local level to satisfy European Standards?
4. Education can be strong instrument of development. Do you think that the crossborder cooperation in this field is good, and how can it be increesed through crossborder projects?
5. How do you explain the fact that Novi Sad has faster development that Belgrade, but at the same time it has much less financial incomes?
We think that the responce from the citizens was good as well as their questions and we came to a conclusion that citizens in Zrenjanin are not well informed about EU programmes for Serbia.
The atmosphere on the debate was relaxed and there were no tensions that were expected regarding the situation in preelection campaign.
What bothers citizens the most is the fact that no one gives them concrete answers on questions such as what does every citizen gets by entering Serbia in EU.