2020
21 municipalities plan to hire over 900 employees
16. 06. 2020.
Despite public administration optimisation measures, that are still in force and prescribe a 10 percent reduction of employees at the local level, twenty-one Montenegrin municipalities plan to hire 915 employees, during this, election year, and next year. The Law on Local Self-Government from 2018 put municipalities under obligation to adopt human resources plans, which project…
First Impressions on Non-paper for Chapters 23 and 24
12. 06. 2020.
A new non-paper for chapters 23 and 24 in Montenegro will be published soon. Here are our first comments for daily newspapers Vijesti: In general, one not really positive image. This report is not that much about critics as it is ”faded” and testifies to more than worrying stagnation, bearing in mind that we are…
Police to Stop Discriminating Participants of Public Assemblies
10. 06. 2020.
Action for Human Rights (HRA) and Institute Alternative (IA) urge Police Administration to harmonise their actions and to stop selective treatments of participants of different public assemblies. During the general ban of public assemblies, police allowed citizens to gather without any restrictions, while they were warning the participants of the car-protests who were celebrating saints…
Workshop on COVID-19 Pandemic in the Western Balkans: Effects on Democracy, Rule of Law, and Civil Society
09. 06. 2020.
TEN members took part at the closed-door workshop „The COVID-19 Pandemic in the Western Balkans: Effects on Democracy, Rule of Law, and Civil Society“ organised by the Aspen Institute Germany. The workshop gathered an expert community from the EU and the region, along with the officials from the EU and its member states. As a…
Montenegrin citizens do not know what public procurement means
09. 06. 2020.
Survey results on public opinion showed that the number of citizens who do not know what is public procurement had almost doubled. Even 71% citizens explicitly stated that they did not know what public procurement meant and could not describe the term in a few words. Ana Đurnić, Public Policy Researcher at Institute Alternative (IA)…
Public procurement 2019: Increasing spending, decreasing competitiveness
05. 06. 2020.
According to the latest 2019 Public Procurement Report issued by the Ministry of Finance, the competitiveness of public procurement procedures in Montenegro has never been lower. As a rule, low competition intensity means low quality of procured goods, works and services. When we add to that the highest recorder public procurement budget expenditure, the picture…