ACTIVITIES REPORT: March 2003 - July 2003

March
1. Participation in March seminar in Budapest – in policy-writing process seminars for all fellows,

2. Participation in working groups for The Policy Process fellows.

3. Private meetings and consultations with WG mentor Dr Julius Horvath, Department Head, CEU.

4. Consultations with my three mentors: shaping and narrowing the objectives of the research.

5. Analyzing books and similar researches and methods for research in the CEU library.

April
1. Analyzing current legislation governing procedures and powers for the National Assembly.

2. Setting up and moderating a discussion/debate of elections topic in the Momentum network of professionals.

3. Participation in the seminar "Media and Elections: Impact on public choice" organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Council of Europe. I was the only participant from the NGO sector while all others were from authority or media circles.

4. Reviewing the experience of the Greece in policy making process. Several meetings in Athens. The most remarkable is a meeting with Mr Theodossis Georgiou, a former parliamentarian, chairman of ATA.

May
1. Interviewing with several members of the National assembly for finding out / mapping the difficulties they face with constituency relations. These interviews are important as May was an election period for the parliament.

2. Participation during several party meetings and assembling the link between platform strategy with actual possibilities of actions.

3. Analyzing literature re finding links between contemporary power theories and current democracy oriented reforms.

4. Acting as a proxy during elections. Analyzing / expirencing drawbacks and opprtunities of the election legislation.

June
1. June OSI seminar in Budapest

2. WG meeting, sharing with findings and ideas.

3. Final preparation and downloading of the site at the policy.hu address.

4. Analyzing Russian experience in policy making process. How does St. Petersburg affect Moscow?

5. Writing reserach paper.

6. Participation at the seminar "Developement of State-Society Relations" organized by the Council of Europe / European Commission.

July
1. In depth inteviews with key decision makers.

2. Meeting and consulattions with an international mentor Mr. Arthur Martirosyan of CMG.

3. Writing down reserach paper.

4. Interviews with different lobbyst groups' representatives.

5. Systemic approach analyses to the lobbying processes.

6. A policy paper may dramatically change his face after full research. The reason is power network analyses which came out during research.