March 2015
SAI and Criminal Charges
18. 03. 2015.
During the meeting with state auditors and civil society held last week, one of the key issues raised was whether the State Audit Institution (SAI) should file criminal charges and why that hasn’t been done in their thus far. The reports of SAI list numerous irregularities and illegalities in the field of managing the public…
IA donated books to the Faculty of the Political Science
18. 03. 2015.
As a research institute, we prepare and publish publications of importance for the students and academia, so we wanted to offer the analysis of the key elements of public policy from the perspectives of different scientific disciplines with our collection of papers “Public Policy”. This collection was the result of our programme” Public Policy School”,…
Collection of concession fees still under the veil of secrecy
16. 03. 2015.
New proposals by the Draft Law on public-private partnership are not stimulating, do not adequately regulate the supervision over the implementation of these partnerships, and they are not based on “lessons learnt” from the bad application of the concession policy thus far. By avoiding the application of the Public Procurement Law and by preventing the…
Replacements and court intrigues
15. 03. 2015.
Replacements of the Head of authorities, as the act of the sanctioning due to the lack of results and serious omissions, make sense only if: those replaced are not shifted to another managerial position and secondly, even more important, if their position has been fulfilled by better, more professional and capable officials. Otherwise, the replacement…
Reaction: Open Calls Instead of Political Decrees
10. 03. 2015.
The appointment of the Assistance Ministers must not be subjected to the coalition agreements. The recruitment should be made solely on the basis of open calls and capabilities of the candidates verified by the special commission, as said from the Institute Alternative (IA). The media announced today that one of the topic between the Heads…
First meeting of the civil society and state auditors held
09. 03. 2015.
The first consultative meeting between State Audit Institution (SAI) and the civil society was held today, organized by Institute Alternative, with the support of the Royal Norwegian Embassy. On behalf of SAI, the meeting was attended by the Senate members, Nikola Kovačević, Branislav Radulović and Dragiša Pešić, who answered many questions posed by representatives…