Economy, prosperity, and stability are voted as the most significant benefits for Slovenia from joining the EU. 🌍💼📈

Can we learn from their experience and speed up our reforms? 🤔✨ The growth plan, the Western Balkans’ path to EU accession, and socio-economic convergence will be discussed at today’s conference: “Civil Society High-Level Conference: Continuing the success story of EU enlargement – bringing benefits to the Western Balkans in advance of accession” 📢

As a member of the European Economic and Social Committee, Executive Director Blagica Petreski is participating in this conference. 👩‍💼💬

EESC – European Economic and Social Committee

💡📊 Participatory budgeting and gender-responsive budgeting are two tools that yield results in creating more effective, efficient, and inclusive policies.

🌍🤝 Finance Think employs these tools and generates findings on their impact. Last week, as a member of the international network People Powered, we participated in the network’s annual meeting, which was held in Warsaw, Poland.

📣🌐 Our findings, experiences, and practices were showcased in the introductory session, in the presence of participants from 47 countries.

🛠️📈✨ At the same time, we enriched our knowledge about innovative democratic tools for building better and more inclusive policies.