Meeting with Mr. Marjan Risteski, the mayor of Prilep

January 15, 2009, Prilep

Analytica research fellows were warmly welcomed by Mr. Marjan Risteski, the mayor of Prilep. Our team had the opportunity to meet the municipality's administration and on a round table to discuss the environmental issues in the municipality and the performance of the local authorities in the environmental sector. The debate was about the environmental priorities and future actions towards continual improvement of the state of the environment of this local self-government. Furthermore the event offered fresh, new insights on pressing environmental issues like attaining safe water and abatement of river pollution from long-term wastewater discharges. Additionally, the discussion enabled transfer of experiences between the two meeting parties, the local authorities and Analytica.
Analytica research fellows were warmly welcomed by Mr. Marjan Risteski, the mayor of Prilep. Our team had the opportunity to meet the municipality's administration and on a round table to discuss the environmental issues in the municipality and the performance of the local authorities in the environmental sector. The debate was about the environmental priorities and future actions towards continual improvement of the state of the environment of this local self-government. Furthermore the event offered fresh, new insights on pressing environmental issues like attaining safe water and abatement of river pollution from long-term wastewater discharges. Additionally, the discussion enabled transfer of experiences between the two meeting parties, the local authorities and Analytica.

The presented activities are part of the on-going project “Building National Capacities: Harmonisation, Legislation and Management”, “Think and Link”- Regional Policy Programme for Think-Tanks and Policy Institutes, financed by the European Fund for the Balkans. ( http://balkanfund.org/ )