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Because of the Croatian parliamentary elections of 25 November 2007, GONG organized a nation-wide campaign. It was officially announced in October, although certain activities were conducted in the months before. The GONG campaign for the parliamentary elections focused on educating and informing citizens, observing the overall election process and reporting on its course.
From 7-9 December 2007 the European Commission organised the ‘European Citizens Agenda Conference’ in Brussels. 250 citizens and representatives of NGO’s were collecting the findings of 6 large scale citizen participation projects co-financed by the European Commission (‘European Citizens Consultations’, Europa-House Budapest’, ‘Speak up Europe’, ' Tomorrow's Europe', Our Message to Europe' and ' Radio Web Europe'). Several Politeia partners have been involved in one of these projects, the European Citizens Consultations, as can be read in earlier Politeia Newsletters.
Increasing the percentage of women in politics and managing positions is unfortunately a topic that still needs attention. After striving many years for the emancipation of women, the Netherlands is, in comparison to other Western countries, lacking behind if we look at the representation of women in top positions in business life, politics, social and university boards. The level of education is not the problem; women perform better than men.
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