December 2015
Press Release: Governing without discussion – Citizens without a possibility to improve regulations
30. 12. 2015.
The Government is constantly violating relevant regulations on organising public discussions and inclusion of interested public in the process of drafting strategic documents and law and is withholding information on regulation preparation, which has a negative impact on the quality of these documents. Public discussions are either not organised at all or they last less…
TV feature: Who is police guarding, the Government or the citizens? The Police in region
29. 12. 2015.
Within the regional POINTPULSE project, together with our partners from BIRN, we have recorded a TV feature “Who is police guarding, the Government or the citizens? The Police in the Region”, which was broadcast in December on the regional television programme N1. Our correspondents were: independent MPs, Mladen Bojanić and Velizar Kaluđerović president of the…
Press release: Ministry of Interior checked off the box by simulating a public debate on the Strategy of Police Development
29. 12. 2015.
Ministry of Interior (MoI) has without any particular explanation refused to enhance the work of the internal control of police and the increase of its authority, without including measures related to depolitisation, the enhancement of transparency and improving of finance management in the Strategy of Police Development. The Government has adopted the Strategy of Police…
Press Release: Enable an equal treatment of employees with fixed-term contracts
28. 12. 2015.
In the light of the media allegations that the Ministry of Interior has resolved the status of employees with fixed-term contracts by enabling them to apply for internal announcements, the Institute Alternative warns that such practice could be discriminatory. A number of civil servants in other state bodies are discriminated in that manner, who have…
Draft Public Administration Reform Strategy does not lead to a better public administration
28. 12. 2015.
Institute Alternative has submitted to the Ministry of Interior some 40 pages of comments on the Draft Public Administration Strategy. The draft does not meet the essential challenges of good governance. The public administration reform is a key process not only for the building capacity of the administration to meet numerous requirements of the accession…
Who cares about regulations?
23. 12. 2015.
Introduction of legal obligation to organise public discussions on all laws, as well as calls of invitations for participation for interested parties in working groups dealing with the preparation of these regulations, represent a progress in regulating normative framework for public consultations in Montenegro. This is so because in 2010 the European Commission has ,…