CIVIL SOCIETY EMBASSY WITH THE AMBASSADOR OF AUSTRIA
During the meeting, matters related to the civil society in Austria were discussed. Among other things, there were discussed common features and differences of Polish and Austrian civil society, cooperation of NGOs and social movements with public administration, the rule of law in the European Union, security, as well as involvement in environmental protection. An important part of the discussion was the topic of civil society activities in the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Ambassador Andreas Stadler, who is fluent in Polish, repeatedly referred during the meeting to his experiences from his several visits to Poland - as a student at Warsaw University, his work at the Austrian Institute of Culture in Warsaw, and his accreditation as Ambassador of Austria to Poland in September 2021.
„Embassy of Civil Society”is MISO’s cyclical meetings with dipplomats devoted to broadly understood civil society in a country represented by a given diplomat, i.e., among others, on the definition and understanding of the notion of civil society, manifestations, problems and challenges of civil society, laws regulating civil society, financing of civil society , activities of NGOs and social movements.