{"id":15848,"date":"2023-07-06T14:59:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/?p=15848"},"modified":"2023-07-06T15:13:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T13:13:19","slug":"bezoek-uit-de-balkan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/en\/bezoek-uit-de-balkan\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit from the Balkans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Tuesday, 3 July, Foundation Max van der Stoel was visited by prominent members of social democratic parties from south-eastern Europe who were in The Hague for a working visit focused on political integrity, at the initiative of the North American <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndi.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Democratic Institute<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NDI). The SEE attendees included NDI staff, party workers, and councillors from local politics. Participants were from Kosovo, Croatia, and northern Macedonia, among others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15860 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2278-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2278-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2278-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2278-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2278-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2278-9x12.jpeg 9w, https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2278-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The group was very interested in the topic of political integrity, as they often face challenges in their home countries around political funding, transparency, and declining voter confidence in political office holders. Thoughts were exchanged on various topics, including promoting va<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">n political integrity through trainings, the structure of confidants in political parties, and processes of candidate nomination in various elections. This is why they came to speak about this with Kido Koenig, the director of the FMS, Jacob Schaap, as internal confidant, and Joshua Paas, as official secretary of the candidate advisory committee. With them, they talked about the work of FMS, social safety and integrity, and ensuring integrity within candidacy procedures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15861 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/364c9aab-7b85-4565-b7d9-7f2dcef14724-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/364c9aab-7b85-4565-b7d9-7f2dcef14724-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/364c9aab-7b85-4565-b7d9-7f2dcef14724-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/364c9aab-7b85-4565-b7d9-7f2dcef14724-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/364c9aab-7b85-4565-b7d9-7f2dcef14724-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/364c9aab-7b85-4565-b7d9-7f2dcef14724-16x12.jpeg 16w, https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/364c9aab-7b85-4565-b7d9-7f2dcef14724.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The talks turned into interesting discussions <\/span>in which different and valuable perspectives were discussed. Furthermore, potential future cooperation between the FMS and the parties and organisations that represented the SEE visit was discussed afterwards. All in all: an interesting and informative afternoon!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Op dinsdag 3 juli kreeg Foundation Max van der Stoel bezoek van prominente leden van sociaaldemocratische partijen uit Zuidoost-Europa die voor werkbezoek, gefocust op politieke integriteit, in Den Haag waren, op initiatief van het Noord-Amerikaanse National Democratic Institute (NDI). De Zuidoost-Europese aanwezigen waren onder meer medewerkers van het NDI, partijmedewerkers, en raadsleden uit de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-democracy","category-uncategorized","region-zuidoost-europa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}