Presentation of the "Freedom barometer" brochure

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Zagreb, 29th of October 2013 - The German liberal foundation Friedrich Naumann in cooperation with the 5th Department of the Academy (the Department for the public) is presenting a publication titled "Freedom barometer". The event shall be held on Thursday, the 31st of October 2013, in Zagreb, in the facilities of CPP's Political Academy, Tomićeva 2/II street beginning at 12PM.

Charles du Vinage, director of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for freedom project for the West Balkans countries, Dušan Gamser, international Secretary of the Liberal democrats party, Pavle Mihajlović, economy graduate from the von Neumann Club, Dušan Dinić, regional coordinator of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for freedom for the countries of the West Balkans and Davor Gjenero, coordinator of the 5th Department of CPP's Political Academy (the Department for the public) and political analyst.

The idea for the brochure was developed in the office of the foundation for southeast and east Asia in Bangkok, and it based on the newest indexes from areas of economic and political freedoms and the rule of rights. Using these sources, the foundation's experts draw conclusions and represent an image of each of the countries. The Freedom Barometer has a goal to analyse questions dear to liberals (human rights, democracy, freedom of the press and trade etc.) from a wider perspective. The German liberal foundation Friedrich Naumann started this project in 2010 for Asia, and the freedom barometer for the West Balkans was created in 2013 which encompasses Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. The freedom barometer consists of 10 elements of political and economic freedom in a unique index, which are tied to the methodology and sources of well known world organisations, and it encompasses the following:

Political freedoms

1. Free and fair elections, political pluralism and citizen participation (Freedom House)
2. Freedom from anti-constitutional veto decision-making (Freedom House)
3. Freedom of the media (Freedom House)
4. Independence of the justice system (Frazer Institute)
5. Freedom from corruption (Transparency International)
6. Protection of basic human rights from torture, arbitrary arrests, murder, discrimination, slavery and a guarantee of freedom of thought, religion and association (Maplecroft Human Risk Atlas)

Economic freedoms (Frazer Institute + Heritage Foundation, thw World Bank and the Bertelsmann Foundation)

7. Protection of the right to private property in relation to state arbitrarity
8. Freedom from large spending, debt and state tax
9. Freedom of crediting, work and business from regulatory obstacles
10. Freedom of international trade from customs obstacles