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A National Conference entitled “Improving parliamentary activity on EU accession” was scheduled by the Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM) to take place on 21st of December 2012, aiming to engage national decision-makers, Parliamentary and Governmental actors, civic and other stakeholders in a consultative process to discuss and reach consensus over possible legal and institutional alternatives to improve legislative’s role under the EU accession.
This initiative, bringing regional experiences on lessons learnt and expertise from EU member states, was designed in the context of an IDM advocacy effort, offering alternatives and urging Albanian Parliament to move boldly towards improved performance in the context of EU accession and help its standing Parliamentary Committee on European integration (PCEI) to acquire the profile of a resourceful, influential and experienced parliamentary chain which is able to deliver on expectations for quality and broad consent over EU accession reforms.
As the National Conference was canceled due to reasons beyond the organizer’s power, IDM was left with the sole choice to address the “missing policy debate” through this publication of a series of critical analysis and experiences focusing on the role of the Parliaments under EU accession and CSOs’ involvement mechanisms.
Hoping that the Parliamentary stakeholders of the next legislature will consider the advice and contribution of this publication IDM remains committed to continue its advocacy efforts regarding its proposals on (1) institutional mechanisms to improve parliamentary consultations with non-state interest groups under EU accession, and (2) a new draft law on the functioning of PCEI.
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This research offers a modest contribution to address such gap and to bring sensitivity among key stakeholders on the missing role of non-state interest groups under the EU accession process. The analysis relies on comprehensive literature review and field research with members of various LIG in Albania in order to gather qualitative and quantitative data. Based on gathered evidence the paper suggests a set of concrete recommendations to strengthen the involvement of Albanian latent interest groups in the EU accession process.
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STUDY
Based on the assessment of the measures within the Action Plan of the Strategy on Reintegration of Returned Albanian Citizens, this study recommends that adequate measures aiming to manage migration and to support reintegration of Albanian returnees should be undertaken
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This monitoring report presents the main findings of the monitoring and assessments on the activity of the Parliamentary Committee of National Security during January-December 2012 and follows the interim report published in September 2012.
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This monitoring report of the Parliamentary Committee of European Integration, covers the period January-December 2012 and follows the interim report published in September 2012 (for the first half of the year). This monitoring report presents the main findings on the activity of PCEI based on the following indicators:
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Policy Paper
The Brief discusses the general trends and developments in Albania’s intelligence community, analyses the current accountability system and the extent to which it meets democratic standards and recommends the improvement of the accountability system based on broadly accepted international best practices.
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This report includes findings identified from a 9 month project that involved presentation workshops organized in six different universities in Albania’s largest cities, combined with surveys carried out to collect the perceptions regarding the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Accordingly, this study report highlights some of the most prominent reflections on NATO’s current agenda and operations.
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Monitoring Brief
This Monitoring Brief presents the key findings on the PCNS’ activity based on the following indicators: Presence in meetings of the PCNS’ members; Presence and level of representation from the ministries, charged to prepare the draft-laws to be presented in the Committee; Involvement of the civil society and interest groups in PCNS’ meetings; Quality of parliamentary scrutiny of draft-laws and other normative acts.
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For the second consecutive year, IDM Centre for European & Security Affairs launches the Monitoring Report on the activity of the Parliamentary Committee of European Integration (PCEI), published twice a year, in accordance to the working sessions of the Albanian Parliament.
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Collection of Papers
This publication provides a collection of papers that focus mainly on the analysis of the security sector governance. Although the findings and conclusions provided in the papers are mostly based on data collected in the period from 2009 to 2011, this publication provides a solid basis for understanding and evaluating the governance of the security sector in Albania as well as for further research in the field.
