“Public Administration in the Balkans – from Weberian Bureaucracy to New Public Management” was the subject of the workshop that took place on 5-6 February at the EPLO Headquarters in Athens, Greece, with the participation of 50 academics, experts and representatives of state authorities from Bulgaria, Croatia, FYROM, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
The workshop was part of the project “South-Eastern European Developments on the Administrative Convergence and Enlargement of the European Administrative Space in Balkan States” that the EPLO is implementing in partnership with the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration of Romania, the University of the Aegean of Greece, and the New Bulgarian University of Bulgaria, in the framework of the Jean Monnet Programme, Key Activity 1.
The project consists of a three-year research study on the processes and phenomena involved with the convergence and compatibility of the public administrations of the states situated at the Balkan region with the principles and values of the European Administrative Space (EAS). In addition to producing and disseminating general and thematic reports (analyses, case studies, comparative studies), the project aims, among other, at creating and sustaining a network of researchers, as well as initiating discussion among civil society, Balkan and European organizations involved with the field of European integration process and the public administration sector.
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