Window to Europe

Pyotr SkubishevskiInstitute of Social and Economic AffairsMember of Warsaw city councilWarsawExclusively for 168 Zham As a result of the European Parliament elections in Poland on June 7 the right-centralist Civic Platform won with 45% of votes. Since 1989 it was the biggest victory of this political power, which encouraged the ruling political power and prime …

The European Parliament was established in the beginning of 1957. In the beginning the members were appointed by the EU member countries. Since 1979 the members of the European parliament are elected by the EU member states. It is worth mentioning that the higher voter turnout was registered during the first election with 69% of …

The European Parliament has three important functions – legislation, budgetary policy and supervision. In the legislative line it’s worth mentioning that the European Parliament shares legislative functions with the EU Council. After signing the treaty of Nice there is a so-called system of mutual decisions, according to which the European Parliament and the EU Council …

It is the first time Yerevan is holding local government elections for the purpose of electing a mayor. Even though the mayor will be elected indirectly, this is the first time that the mayor of Yerevan is elected. The new system of electing mayor of Yerevan is introduced by the authorities as improvement for the …

– In several days Yerevan for the first time will go through the elections of the city council. Numerous opinions where heard about the importance of the elections. If we consider the city council elections in the external aspect to what extent do they match with the logic of the policy of European integrity and …

Can the city council have an oppositional mayor? If in Armenia this question is being discussed or bargained then in Europe this would seem senseless. Moreover, if in European cities periodically governmental party mayors were elected then people would worry that something is wrong. For us Armenians this seems incredible but in many countries mayors …

– There is no democracy if it is not at the local level. This slogan is posted on the website of the local and territorial congress of the Council of Europe. – Democracy is a human right to elect an MP, president through suffrage. But democracy must be practiced every day and every moment. People …

The process of Euro-integration is not accepted by the Armenian society in the full extent. For most part of the society and political parties the processes such as Euro-integration, European policy and united Europe are mostly mere expressions but not a process, which involves the state in the process and promises good prospective for Armenia. …

Very interesting processes are happening on the threshold of the upcoming summit of the EU Eastern partnership project to take place on May 7 in Prague. Specifically, these interesting processes are connected with the participation of Vladimir Voronin, the president of Moldova, and Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus. Both of these countries are participating …

The leaders of 27 countries of the EU adopted the Eastern Partnership project during the summit in Brussels on March 20, according to which Europe will develop closer strategic cooperation with six post-soviet countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus. About a month ago the Armenian media published this information but the society seemed …