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15th Regional Cooperation Council Annual Meeting took place in Budva on 4 June 2023 (Photo: RCC/Armand Habazaj)

Bregu: This year marks one of the most impactful ones for the Western Balkans when it comes to regional cooperation
04 Jun 2023

Budva - "This year marks one of the most impactful ones for the Western Balkans, marking the long-awaited turning point towards commitments taken by the economies of the region, through the Common Regional Market (CRM). With integrity, collegiality and competence - three words of tradition ...

RCC Secretary General Majlinda Bregu and Acting Director General for Multilateral Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro Radovan Bogojević at the 49th meeting of RCC Board, in sarajevo on 25 May 2023 (Photo: RCC/Armin Durgut)

RCC Board approves organisation’s Annual Report 2022/23, and adopts Financial Report 2022
25 May 2023

Sarajevo – The participants of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Board approved the organisation’s Annual Report 2022/23 and adopted the Financial Report 2022 at their 49th meeting held in Sarajevo today. The Annual Report 2022/23 is expected to be endorsed at the RCC Annual ...

Participants of the ESAP 2 hybrid event Western Balkans 4 Decent Working and Living, Skopje, 27-28 April 2023 (Photo: RCC ESAP2/Stefan Bozarov)

Moderate progress of the Western Balkan economies regarding the European Pillar of Social Rights
04 May 2023

(Sarajevo/Skopje) - The Employment and Social Affairs Platform 2 (ESAP 2) project of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) presented the 2022 edition of individual economy and regional overview reports on performance of the Western Balkan (WB) economies regarding the European Pillar of Social ...

48th Meeting of the RCC Board, 15 March 2023 in Sarajevo (Photo: RCC/Armin Durgut)

Bregu: Continued all-inclusive regional cooperation remains key in strengthening economic resilience of Western Balkans
15 Mar 2023

Sarajevo – “External risks arising from the current geopolitical crisis and the rise in commodity prices reinforce the purpose of the Common Regional Market agenda. Continued all-inclusive regional cooperation remains the key towards strengthening economic resilience of the Western ...

Western Balkans Women Entrepreneurs of the Year 2022 has begun on 3 February 2023. Nomination process opened until 28 February. (Layout: RCC/Samir Dedic)

RCC: Nominations for Western Balkans Women Entrepreneurs of the Year 2022 open
03 Feb 2023

Sarajevo – The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) is happy to announce that the nomination process for the Western Balkans Women Entrepreneurs of the Year 2022 has begun! The RCC launched this initiative last year in the framework of the Common Regional Market Action Plan 2021-2024 and ...

Marking European Day of Persons with Disabilities 2022 (Photo: RCC)

Looking at Social Ability to Provide Equal Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities
24 Nov 2022

Sarajevo – In the Western Balkans economies “most of the progress was registered in the areas of inclusion of children with disabilities, especially in the process of deinstitutionalisation of children with disability, inclusive education and support services offered at the community ...

RCC Secretary General Majlinda Bregu giving opening remarks at the presentation of Balkan Barometer and SecuriMeter 2022 results, on 24 June 2022 in Brussels (Photo: RCC/Laure Geerts)

Bregu: Support of Western Balkan citizens to regional cooperation remains stable at 76%
24 Jun 2022

Brussels – “While many things change, our public and business perceptions surveys remain a truthful source of sentiments across the region. At times, the results surprise us, sometimes they serve as a wake-up call, while on other occasions they confirm that our efforts are not in ...

14th RCC Annual Meeting took place in Thessaloniki, Greece on 9 June 2022 (Photo: RCC/Armand Habazaj)

Bregu: As long as we continue to subscribe to dialogue, compromise and cooperation, we invest in long-term stability, security and prosperity
09 Jun 2022

Thessaloniki – “Under the political guidance of SEECP and in consultations with all relevant actors and stakeholders, RCC identified those gaps in which the region should invest with technical as well as political capital. These all fall under the category of sustainable development, ...

Annual meeting of the Regional Cooperation Council to take place on 9 June 2022 in Thessaloniki (Design: RCC/Sejla Dizdarevic)

Champion of Regional Cooperation to round off 14th RCC Annual Meeting
08 Jun 2022

Sarajevo/Thessaloniki – Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) is to hold its 14th Annual Meeting on Thursday, 9 June in Thessaloniki. RCC Secretary General Majlinda Bregu will present the RCC Annual Report and major accomplishments and results of the organisation in the past year while putting ...

From right to left: RCC Secretary General Majlinda Bregu, Head of Political Department Amer Kapetanovic and Head of Office of the Secretary General Elda Kalaja heading the 46th RCC Board Meeting on 18 May 2022 in Sarajevo (Photo: RCC/Armin Durgut)

Bregu: With slowed growth & inflation, higher energy & food prices, Western Balkans will have to amp-up regional cooperation
18 May 2022

Sarajevo - It is very difficult to sugar-coat the severity of economic effects of the war on the Western Balkans. It is equally difficult to accurately predict the true and longer-term impact, or to identify the opportunities for the region along the way. Our realities today are drastically ...

RCC Secretary General, Majlinda Bregu with the Head of RCC Political Department, Amer Kapetanovic and Head of Office of the Secretary General, Elda Kalaja heading the 45th meeting of the RCC Board on 16 March 2022

Bregu: European perspective important for socio-economic progress, but also for security and stability
16 Mar 2022

Sarajevo/Tirana – “The times we are living in are not glamorous, on the contrary these are dark moments. We are all heartened and deeply saddened by the unjust war Ukrainian people are going through. The economic impact of the war stretches beyond Ukraine's borders. Concern ...

Secretary General Majlinda Bregu at the EU-Balkans Youth Forum

Bregu: Being Europeans is not written in DNA but what you believe and fight for
25 Nov 2021

“It’s not breaking news any longer that our youth is leaving the region. One out of 3 youngsters, age 18-24, in the Western Balkans confirms that they are ready to leave their homeland. We should understand the message – their choice of destination shows what’s missing ...

Ognjen Markovic, Team Leader of RCC’s Western Balkans Youth Lab Project speaking at the Mid-Term Conference on Youth Unemployment held in Sarajevo on 26 October 2021 (Photo: RCC/Armin Durgut)

Youth-Tailored Solutions Require Youth Participation
26 Oct 2021

Sarajevo/Online – “Cooperation, innovative solutions, equality, participation - these are the things we need today more than ever, as we establish an environment in which youth and policy makers sit together to constructively explore the ways in which youth priorities and needs ...

RCC Secretary General Majlinda Bregu at the 44th RCC Board Meeting held on 15 October 2021 (Photo: RCC/Ani Media)


15 Oct 2021

Sarajevo – “European perspective of Western Balkans is the drive that makes the process of cooperation beneficial to all in long-term. It is of highest importance that both the region and the EU deliver on the respective commitments – particularly when we take into account ...

Participants of the ESAP 2 hybrid event Employment and Social Affairs, Tirana, 12-13 2021 (Photo: RCC ESAP2/Ani Media)

RCC’s ESAP 2 project gathered its partners and beneficiaries at a 2-day hybrid event to discuss employment and social affairs
13 Oct 2021

Sarajevo/Tirana – Western Balkans’ Social Scoreboard, and individual and regional overview reports on performance of the Western Balkan economies regarding the European Pillar of Social Rights, prepared by Employment and Social Affairs Platform 2 (ESAP 2) project of the Regional ...

Secretary General Majlinda Bregu at the launch of Balkan Barometer 2021 in Tirana on 24 June 2021 (Photo: RCC/Armand Habazaj)

Bregu: Balkan Barometer reveals human uncertainty and vulnerability are main concerns followed by some goodish news on benefits of regional cooperation
24 Jun 2021

Tirana – “This, seventh in a row, Balkan Barometer shows human uncertainty and vulnerability are the main concerns followed by some goodish news which is the consciousness about the benefits of regional cooperation. For 49% of Western Balkan citizens, unemployment is the biggest ...

13th Annual Meeting of the Regional Cooperation Council took place on 16 June 2021 in Antalya, Turkey (Photo: RCC/Murat Yilmaz)


16 Jun 2021

Antalya – “Last year, ruled by the pandemic has definitely showcased the extent of our interconnectivity and interdependency and demonstrated that in cooperating, we boost our strengths and resilience. It is clear that regional socio-economic integration is crucial for regional ...

ESAP 2: Webinar “Data Matters!” (Design: Samir Dedic)


11 Jun 2021

Sarajevo/Online – “In 2019, the average employment rate in the Western Balkans (WB) grew to a historically high level, with new jobs being created throughout the region. New job creation by in large came to a halt in 2020 due to the effects of the coronavirus.  Despite overall ...

RCC’s ESAP Project presented Study on Youth Employment in the Western Balkans on an online Give Youth a Chance” conference held on 31 Mat 2021 (Design: RCC/Samir Dedic)

Bregu: With regional youth unemployment rate at 35.1% the need to act is clear, as youth is our most precious asset
31 May 2021

Sarajevo/Online – “Youth and jobs has not been a good combination in the Western Balkans for some time. The average regional youth unemployment rate in 2020 was 35.1%, which is more than double the European Union (EU) rate of 16.9%.  Some of it can be blamed on the COVID 19 ...

“Improving Social Partner Involvement in Tackling Undeclared Work” in the Western Balkans, webinar held on 19 April 2021 (Photo: RCC/ESAP2)

Greater engagement of social partners in tackling undeclared work in the Western Balkans is much needed, authorities and social partners agree
19 Apr 2021

Sarajevo – “The Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Employment and Social Affairs Platform 2 (ESAP 2) project aims to support regional cooperation among the Western Balkan (WB) economies in transforming undeclared work into declared work, pursuing a holistic integrated strategic ...

Third Plenary meeting of the Western Balkan Network Tackling Undeclared Work held online under the RCC's ESAP 2 project, 16 April 2021 (Photo: RCC/ESAP2)

Balance between prevention and deterrence one of key elements for successful, structured approach to formalizing undeclared work
16 Apr 2021

Sarajevo – “COVID 19 pandemic introduced many new challenges to labour markets globally and in Western Balkans, as this region has low activity and employment rates on one hand and high rates of informal work on the other. Current times are very challenging and the pandemic is impacting ...

Tanja Miscevic, Deputy Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) at the opening of regional meeting ‘European Pillar of Social Rights: challenges and opportunities for the Western Balkan economies’held online on 19 November 2020

Addressing livelihood topics of social rights - jobs, wages, access to education, health care – more important than ever
19 Nov 2020

Sarajevo/Brussels/Tirana – “It is no longer news that Western Balkan societies fall short in many socio-economic aspects. We, together with our partners – governments in the region, European Union (EU) and many others, work to reduce this gap between the region and the EU. ...

2nd Regional Plenary Meeting dealing with undeclared work in the Western Balkans was held on 17 November 2020


17 Nov 2020

Online – “Main aim of our work being promotion of regional cooperation in transforming the undeclared into declared work in the Western Balkans has so far resulted in gathering of the relevant region’s institutions around the regional Network. Today, at its 2nd plenary meeting ...

1st meeting of the Western Balkans’s Network Tackling Undeclared Work took place online on 30 September 2020


30 Sep 2020

Sarajevo – “Informal economy is a chronic problem of many economies, Western Balkans’ in particular, as estimates show that up to 30% of the employed persons in the region work undeclared. Today’s meeting is about to explore ways on how all institutions in charge of ...

RCC’s Western Balkans Youth Lab and Employment and Social Affairs Platform Projects organized webinar tackling youth unemployment in the region on 3 July 2020 (Photo: RCC/Ratka Babic)


03 Jul 2020

RCC’s Western Balkans Youth Lab and Employment and Social Affairs Platform Projects organized webinar tackling policymaking and youth unemployment in the region Sarajevo – “Numerous stories of unemployed young people across the region who want the leave in pursuit of a job and better ...

RCC Secretary General Majlinda Bregu with Head of the Office of the Secretary General Elda Kalaja preparing for the RCC Annual Meeting on 25 June 2020 (Photo: RCC/Armand Habazaj)


25 Jun 2020

Tirana/Sarajevo/Prishtina – The two meetings have been held today within the South East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) - the meeting of the SEECP Ministers of Foreign Affairs and the RCC Annual Meeting, which RCC co-organised with the outgoing Kosovo SEECP Chairmanship-in-Office ...

Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council Majlinda Bregu presenting the findings of Balkan Barometer 2020 on a webinar held on 24 June 2020 (Photo: RCC/Armand Habazaj)


24 Jun 2020

Sarajevo – “The regional cooperation continues to grow in prominence with an overwhelming majority of citizens supportive of its role in improving the political, economic and security situation in their home economies - 77%, and 65% of them believes that what brings WB citizens ...

Launch of Balkan Barometer 2020 to take place on 24 June 2020 (Illistration: RCC/Sejla Dizdarevic)


23 Jun 2020

Sarajevo – The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) will present 2020 edition of Balkan Barometer on Wednesday 24 June 2020. This annual public and business opinion survey of the RCC examines the perception and expectations on life and work, prevalent socio-economic and political trends & ...

Plenary meeting with Western Balkans officials from key institutions tackling undeclared work took place on 12 June 2020 in online format (Photo: RCC/Klicker Production)


12 Jun 2020

Sarajevo – “The global pandemic caused by the COVID 19 virus has had a profound impact on businesses and workers, as well as economies across the Western Balkans. The undeclared workers, however, have been disproportionately affected since they generally work in low productivity jobs ...

RCC Board met for the 40th time in a row and for the first time online due physical distancing requirements, on 14 May 2020


14 May 2020

Sarajevo – “For all its aggressiveness, the COVID-19 crisis also offers glimmers of hope. It has connected Western Balkans even more, this time in a fight against an invisible enemy. It has persuaded us that cooperation should be resilient. It has created a common awareness that ...

Secretary General Majlinda Bregu speaking at the Regional Conference “Employment - Shades of Grey in the Western Balkans: Regional Perspectives on Creating More and Better Jobs”, marking beginning of the Phase two of the RCC’s Employment and Social Affairs Platform Project - ESAP 2, in Sarajevo on 28 January 2020 (Photo: RCC/Armin Durgut)


28 Jan 2020

Sarajevo – “More than 700 000 jobs have been added to the workforce during the past seven years and unemployment has moved for almost a quarter (23%) to around 16%, across the region. They say a tide lifts all boats, large and small. However, not everybody benefited from these economic and ...

Maja Handziska Trendafilova, Head RCC's Programme Department, opening the regional workshop on undeclared work in the Western Balkans, in Sarajevo on 15 October 2019 (Photo: RCC/Armin Durgut)


15 Oct 2019

Sarajevo – “Informal employment is work that is legal in itself but not declared to the authorities for tax, social security and/or labour law purposes. As such, it plays an important role in all Western Balkan economies, as widespread informality deprives governments of potential tax revenue, ...

Economic growth goes hand in hand with human capital development – investment in education must increase (Photo: Matej Kastelic on Shutterstock)


14 Jun 2019

Luxemburg – “Years in a row our opinion survey Balkan Barometer shows that unemployment is the biggest concern for 67% of the citizens in the Western Balkans (WB), and our alarms should have already gone off, triggering adequate reactions. This region has talent everywhere but their skills ...

Western Balkans needs to address the widespread phenomenon of informal employment through holistic approach - is one of the conclusions of workshops tackling this issue (Photo: Shutterstock)


26 Apr 2019

Sarajevo – “Share of informal/undeclared employment in the region varies from 18,1% in Republic of North Macedonia to 33% in Montenegro1 ,”said Nand Shani, Team Leader of the Regional Cooperation (RCC)’s Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP). Tackling this widespread ...

Representatives of the Western Balkan Public Employment Services (PES) and Ministries of Labour (MoL) visited a company that participated in the on-the job-training programme, in Tirana, 18 January 2019 (Photo: RCC/Sanda Topic)


18 Jan 2019

Western Balkans’ Public Employment Services and Labour Ministries peers review on-the-job training programmes and practices Tirana – Representatives of Public Employment Services (PES) and Ministries of Labour from the Western Balkans economies gathered in Tirana for a 2-day regional ...

Participants of a regional conference on innovative approaches to employment of Roma, jointly organized by the RCC's projects Roma Integration 2020 and Employment and Social Affairs Platform, and Roma Education Fund, on 10 December 2018 in Budapest. (Photo: RCC/Alma Arslanagic-Pozder)


10 Dec 2018

Budapest - Regional conference on innovative approaches to employment of Roma, jointly organized by the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC)’s projects Roma Integration 2020 and Employment and Social Affairs Platform (EASP), and Roma Education Fund (REF) started in Budapest today. 

Minister of Labour and Social Policy, Mila Carovska (in the middle), Biljana Jovanovska, Director of PES and Nand Shani, Team Leader of the ESAP project giving statements to media, Skopje, 26 November 2018 (Photo: RCC/Sanda Topic)


27 Nov 2018

Skopje – A two-day a regional peer review workshop focusing on internship programmes ended in Skopje today. The Workshop was organised by the Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP) project. 

RCC’s ESAP project supported a visit of the Albanian delegation from Ministry of Economy and Finance to Skopje to meet with Ministries of Labour and Social Policy, Education, Finance and Secretariat for European Affairs on 29 October 2018. (Photo: RCC ESAP/Sanda Topic)


29 Oct 2018

Skopje – Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP) project of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) supported the visit of the Albanian delegation from the Ministry of Economy and Finance to Skopje today.

Regional Peer Review Workshop on Local Employment Partnerships, in a field visit to Tesanj municipality, 4 October 2018 (Photo: RCC ESAP/Sanda Topic)


05 Oct 2018

Sarajevo/Tesanj/Prnjavor - Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP) project of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) organised a regional 3-day Workshop on Local Employment Partnerships, which started in Sarajevo and continued with field visits to municipalities of Tesanj and ...

ESAP helps Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare in Pristina to develop its monitoring framework


31 Jul 2018

Pristina – In the period April-July 2018, the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) through its Employment and Social Affairs Platform Project (ESAP) helped the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare of Kosovo* to develop the strategy monitoring tools and increase their capacity to plan ...

Study visit organised by RCC’s ESAP: Albanian Public Employment Service visiting their colleagues in Prishtina (Photo: courtesy of Employment Agency in Prishtina)


12 Jul 2018

Pristina – Upon request of the representatives of the Albanian Public Employment Service (PES), the Regional Cooperation Council's (RCC) Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP) project, within its technical assistance facility, took the Albanian PES on a study visit to their PES ...

5th Meeting of the SEE2020 Governing Board


03 Jul 2018

Brussels – The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) is to present the implementation results of the region’s growth strategy, South East Europe 2020 (SEE2020) on 5 July 2018 in Brussels, and day after, on 6 July also in Brussels, the RCC will reveal the results of its 4th edition of the public ...

Regional Cooperation Council' s (RCC) Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP) Project presented employment and labour market trends and developments in the Western Balkans, in Brussels, 20 June 2018. (Photo: RCC/Sanda Topic)


20 Jun 2018

Brussels – Regional Cooperation Council' s (RCC) Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP) Project presented in Brussels today employment and labour market trends and developments in the Western Balkans (WB). The policy discussion gathered representatives of WB Ministries of Labour and ...

Coordination meeting with representatives of Western Balkan Ministries of Labour and Public Employment Services within Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP) project’s framework, in Brussels on 19 June 2018 (Photo: RCC/Sanda Topic)


19 Jun 2018

Brussels - Representatives of the Western Balkans (WB) Ministries of Labour and Public Employment Services (PES) met in Brussels today, within the framework of the Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Employment and Social Affairs Platform Project (ESAP), to discuss main trends and ...

RCC’s ESAP and Western Balkans’ Public Employment Services present their joint work at Annual Meeting of the EU PES Network in Sofia, 8 June 2018 (Photo: RCC/Vanja Ivosevic)


08 Jun 2018

Sofia – Western Balkan’s Public Employment Services (PES) gathered around Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP) Project were, for the first time ever, invited to participate as observers in a 9th Annual Meeting of the European Union’s  ...

Regional peer-review workshop on youth employment, organised by the RCC’s Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP) in Herceg Novi, 30-31 May 2018 (Photo: RCC/Sanda Topic)


31 May 2018

Herceg Novi – Representatives of the Ministries of Labour and Public Employment Services (PES) offices from the Western Balkan (WB) economies together with relevant regional and international experts in the field, shared experiences and discussed youth employment programmes at the regional peer-review ...

RCC’s ESAP helps Employment Agency in Pristina in drafting their Rules of Procedure (Photo: https://jooinn.com/)


30 Apr 2018

Pristina – During a two months period at the beginning of 2018, the Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Employment and Social Affairs Platform Project (ESAP) provided expert support in drafting the rules of procedure of the Advisory Board of the newly established Employment Agency ...

RCC’s ESAP help Montenegro Employment Agency in upgrading their Information Technology System (Photo: https://jooinn.com/)


23 Apr 2018

Podgorica – The Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Employment and Social Affairs Platform Project (ESAP)provided technical assistance to the Employment Agency of Montenegro in upgrading the Information Technology System in accordance with the European Employment Service (EURES) requirements.

Regional Workshop on Employment of Persons with Disabilities (PWD) in the Western Balkans (WB), in Belgrade on 19-20 April 2018 (Photo: RCC/Sanda Topic)


20 Apr 2018

Belgrade – The Regional Workshop on Employment of Persons with Disabilities (PWD) in the Western Balkans (WB), which was held in Belgrade on 19-20 April 2018, was organised jointly in the framework of two regional projects: Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Employment and Social Affairs ...

Visit to a successful food processing beneficiary of self-employment programme during the peer-review Workshop on self-employment programmes in Pristina, 12 April 2018 (Photo: RCC/Nadja Greku)


12 Apr 2018

Prishtina – Representatives of Ministries of Labour and Public Employment Services (PES) from the Western Balkans discussed self-employment programmes at a two-day regional workshop within the framework of the Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Employment and Social Affairs Platform ...

Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP), http://www.esap.online/ (Photo: RCC)


21 Feb 2018

Although the Western Balkans region suffered the dramatic employment fall in the period following the global economic crisis 2008-2011, “the situation recovered over the subsequent five years and by 2016 total employment had again reached 6.5 million, representing an increase of 8.9%”, ...

Vocational Training Centres analyse their legal framework with RCC’s ESAP assistance (Photo: https://jooinn.com/)


30 Jan 2018

Pristina – Regional Cooperation Council's (RCC) Employment and Social Affairs Platform Project (ESAP) project provided technical assistance to Vocational Training Centres in Kosovo* in analysing their current legal framework and the documents related to vocational training, and proposed ...

RCC's ESAP assists Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare in Pristina to establish an integrated information system (Photo: https://jooinn.com/)


29 Dec 2017

Pristina – The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), through its Employment and Social Affairs Project (ESAP), provided a support upon request of Kosovo* on establishing an integrated information system in the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare. ESAP analysed the current systems ...

The Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Secretary General Goran Svilanovic (to the left) and newly appointed Director of the European Training Foundation (ETF) Cesare Onestini (to the right) signed an agreement on continuation of cooperation between the two organisations, in Brussels on 22 November 2017 (Photo: RCC/Ivana Petricevic)


22 Nov 2017

Brussels – The Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Secretary General, Goran Svilanovic, and newly appointed Director of the European Training Foundation (ETF), Cesare Onestini, signed an agreement on continuation of cooperation between the two organisations, in Brussels today.

ESAP works with Ministries of Labour and Social Affairs and the Public Employment Services of the six Western Balkan economies.


01 Nov 2017

A series of 12 workshops, two per each of the Western Balkans six economies, on Public Employment Services (PES) benchlearning, organised by the Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Employments and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP), kicked-off in Pristina today.

The 1st assessors training on benchlearning for representatives of Public Employment Services (PES) from the Western Balkans, organized by the RCC’s ESAP project was held in Belgrade on 14 September 2017 (Photo: RCC ESAP/Sanda Topic)


14 Sep 2017

Belgrade - The first ever assessors training on benchlearning for representatives of Public Employment Services (PES) from the Western Balkans, organized by the Regional Cooperation Council’ (RCC) Employment and Social Affairs Regional Platform (ESAP) project, was held  in Belgrade today. 

Meeting of representatives of Western Balkan Public Employment Services on qualitative benchmarking, Tivat, Montenegro, 18 July 2017 (Photo: RCC/ESAP/Sanda Topic)


18 Jul 2017

Tivat - Representatives of Western Balkan Public Employment Services (PES) met in Tivat today to discuss qualitative benchmarking, in the framework of the Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP) regional project.

Regional public employment services work together to improve measures leading to reduction of unemployment at ESAP-organised meeting in Skopje on 21 June 2017 (Photo: RCC ESAP/Sanda Topic)


21 Jun 2017

Skopje – Labour market statistics officials from the Public Employment Services (PES) of the Western Balkan economies agreed upon a set of quantitative indicators that are to be collected for the PES benchmarking analysis, at the meeting in Skopje today, organized under auspices of joint ...

RCC's ESAP Project assists Montenegro in preparing the new Labour Law (Photo: https://jooinn.com/)


10 May 2017

Kolasin – Employment and Social Affairs Platform Project (ESAP) of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) supported the Montenegrin Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare by providing technical input and assistance to a national workshop on preparing the new Labour Law.

Visit of journalists from Serbia and representatives of Serbian Government’s Team for social inclusion and poverty reduction to the RCC Secretariat on the topic of gender-sensitive and affirmative media representation of vulnerable groups, Sarajevo, 31 March 2017 (Photo: RCC/Ratka Babic)


31 Mar 2017

Sarajevo – A group of 11 Serbian journalists and representatives of their Government’s Team for social inclusion and poverty reduction visited the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretariat in Sarajevo today, as a part of the thematic study tour to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Skopje: ESAP co-organises National Consultative Meeting on the Employment and Social Reform Programme (Photo: https://jooinn.com/)


21 Feb 2017

Skopje – The Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP) project of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) provided support to a National Consultative Meeting on the Employment and Social Reform Programme, held in February 2017 in Skopje. 

Representatives of public employment services from Western Balkans meet for the first time under the RCC’s Employment and Social Affairs Platform project, in Belgrade, on 27 October 2017. (Photo: RCC/Sanda Topic)


27 Oct 2016

Belgrade/Sarajevo – Representatives of public employment services (PES) of the Western Balkan economies agreed on concrete steps and actions envisaging future cooperation under the Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP) project  at their first  meeting that took place ...

ILO and RCC launch ESAP Project, for better labour market governance in the Western Balkans, on 29 June in Sarajevo. (Photo: RCC/Ratka Babic)

ILO and RCC launch project for better labour market governance in the Western Balkans
29 Jun 2016

Sarajevo – The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) will work together to further regional cooperation in order to achieve more effective labour market governance in the Western Balkans. The new joint project, funded by the European Union, ...

RCC and ILO will jointly create a Western Balkans Platform on Employment and Social Affairs in the framework of a new European Commission funded project signed in Brussels on 1 March 2016. (Photo: RCC/Mimika Loshi)

Three million euro for boosting jobs in the Western Balkans
01 Mar 2016

Brussels - The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) will jointly create a Western Balkans Platform on Employment and Social Affairs in the framework of a new European Commission funded project signed today in Brussels.