Report presents a synthetic overview of open issues and preliminary ideas for dealing with these issues, which have developed in the course of three stakeholder meetings with researchers of the Centre for Political Science Research, Faculty of Social Sciences of the University from December 2013 to May 2015. Stakeholders from the executive and legislative authorities in Slovenia, Slovenian representatives in some of the EU institutions and representatives of economic and non-governmental interests participated at these meetings. In the report, among others, we find that Slovenian coordination of EU affairs takes place predominantly at the bureaucratic level, where also positions on EU legislative proposals are formed. Positions often summarize the Commission's proposal and mainly also result from the Commission's proposal. The political level of coordination and view of domestic politicians, particularly the parliamentarians, is missing.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 33396829In November 2015 Prof. dr. Danica Fink Hafner was a guest in the broadcast Pogled v znanost at the third national program of Radio Slovenia, which addressed the problem of the democratic deficit in the EU. International research project "The organizational development of national interests groups in a European comparative perspective" (in collaboration between the Centre for Political Science Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana and colleagues at the University of Antwerp, Newcastle, Utrecht, Gothenburg and Stuttgart) addresses the question what is the democratic deficit in the EU by focusing on explaining how organizational characteristics and national factors affect the formation, development and characteristics of stakeholders in Europe and thus to the distortion of interest representation in the European Union.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 33904221Material accurately summarizes the steps in the process of implementation of the on-line survey among national interest groups in Slovenia. It includes all the invitations and reminders that were sent to the respondents invited to participate in the survey. Accurate summary of the steps taken in frame of the on-line survey in Slovenia will also help researchers in other countries who will conduct similar surveys among national interest groups in later stages of the international project.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
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