About EWPPP

The East-West Parliamentary Practice Project (EWPPP), headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan nongovernmental organization founded in 1990 as a joint initiative of the European Cultural Foundation (NL) and the Ford Foundation (US) with the aim of providing support for parliaments in the newly emerging democracies in Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

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The Hague, 13-17 September 1990

International seminar: Parliaments and the Transition towards Democracy

The Hague, 30 November – 2 December 1993 
Ukrainian – Dutch workshop: Parliaments and Economic Policy

The Hague, 14-21 June 1995
Belarussian – Dutch – British workshop: Parliamentary Practice and Procedure

Amsterdam, 5-6 December 1996
Meeting of EWPPP Local Consultative Committees and Programme Advisers

The Hague, 19-21 November 1997
Romanian-Bulgarian workshop: Study tour of Romanian and Bulgarian MPs and Parliamentary Staff to the House of Representatives of the Dutch Parliament (In cooperation with the Institute for East-West Studies in Prague, within the framework of the Legislative Issues Service programme.)

The Hague, 10-12 March 1998
Dutch-Georgian parliamentary workshop: Legal Regulation of the Media

The Hague, 10-12 March 1999
Albanian-Dutch parliamentary workshop: Foundations of Democracy: Parliamentary Practice in Democratic Society

Amsterdam, 19 May 2000
EWPPP’s tenth anniversary meeting Concluding a Decade of Change: New and Necessary Strategies for Further Strenghtening Parliamentary Democracy in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe

The Hague, 19-23 March 2001
Dutch-Albanian parliamentary workshop: Parties in Parliament

The Hague, 17-20 January 2002
Dutch-Albanian interparliamentary roundtable debate: Parties in Parliament

The Hague, 18-22 October 2003

Working visit of a delegation from the Assembly of Kosovo to the Dutch Parliament

Santpoort, 16-18 April 2004 
Working Group Meeting with Representatives of the Assembly of  in the Netherlands

The Hague, 5-9 September 2004
Study Visit of Kyrgyz MPs to the Parliament of the Netherlands

The Hague, 5-11 September 2005
Working Visit of the Parliamentary Staff of the Future Afghan Parliament to the House of Representatives of the States General of the Netherlands

The Hague 29 January-2 February 2006
Working Visit of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, the Assembly of the Republic of Montenegro, and the State Union Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro visited the Parliament of the Netherlands and the European Parliament.

The Hague 29 October 2 November 2006 
Young Politicians Study Visit of MPs from the Parliaments of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia participated in a three-day training programme on political leadership, negotiations and EU affairs at the Clingendael Institute in the Hague, the Netherlands.

The Hague, 31 October – 3 November 2007

Working visit of the Georgian Parliamentary delegation to the Dutch Parliament: Economic Good Governance and Parliamentary Oversight

The Hague, 23-26 November 2008

Working Visit of the Representatives of the Parliament of Armenia to the Parliament of the
Netherlands

The Hague, 7-11 February 2010

Clingendael individual training of members of the Albanian Parliement

The Hague, 16 – 19 March 2010

Working Visit of the Representatives of the  Assembly’s Committee for Budget

and Finance to the Parliament of the Netherlands