Accountable public finances

Situation With the President of Senate of State Audit Institution

Questions of the reporter from daily Vijesti: 1. How do you comment information that the Government paid 250,000 euro to the former finance minister in order to help his defence during the trial against him in Italy? 2. Do you think that Ivanisevic, being a president of Senate of State Audit Institution, can still perform…

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Parliamentary program

The Law on Parliamentary Inquiry Should Be Adopted Urgently

Institute Alternative appeals on MPs of Parliament of Montenegro to amend the Law on Parliamentary Inquiry as soon as possible. Refusing to support these amendments means refusal of the support to the strenghtening of the Parliament’s control function, because it is certain that the recently former inquiry committee cannot perform the task asigned to it…

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Other

Seminar: Rule of Law in Montenegro

Institute Alternative President of Managing Board Mr Stevo Muk participated on 24 May in the lunch Seminar on recent developments in the area of Rule of Law in Montenegro, organized by Netherlands permanent representations to the EU in Brussels. Mr Muk participated in discussion on the current state of play in the areas of Rule…

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Accountable public finances

Problems with concessions

A year after the amendments to the Law on concessions entered the parliamentary procedure, Montenegro still doesn’t have a completed and adequate legal framework in the field of public-private partnerships and concessions. The team in charge of making the amendment proposals was formed by the decision of Commission for Economic Policies and Financial System of…

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Accountable public finances

Database of the EUROBLOCK project

On the folowing link, you may access the database of the project “Strengthening the civil society capacity to contribute to EU integration and the accession process”. The project is co-funded and managed by the Delegation of European Union to Montenegro. http://alternativa.changeip.org:18721/public.php

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Other

Meeting With Philip Reeker, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

President of the Managing Board of Institute Alternative, Stevo Muk, executive director of Centre for Civic Education, Daliborka Uljarevic, and executive director of Centre for Development of Non-Governmental Organisations, Ana Novakovic, met today in Podgorica with the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Philip Reeker. Political and socio-economic situation, the role of civil society in…

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Rule of law

New research: Secret Surveillance Measures in Criminal Procedure – Neglected Control

New research conducted by Institute Alternative “Secret Surveillance Measures in Criminal Procedure – Neglected Control” was presented on Wednesday, 4 April 2012 at a press conference. This research is supported by the Parliament of Montenegro, through its Committee for the distribution of funds to NGOs. It represents the second part of the project entitled Democratic…

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Public administration reform

Strategy for Public Administration Reform – First Year of Implementation

Implementation of the Strategy for Public Administration Reform and the accompanying Action Plan has started a year ago. As a result of its regular research activity, Institute Alternative followed the implementation of this strategy and its action plan during this period. In addition to modernization, rationalization and professionalization of the public administration system, the Strategy…

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Social policy

Round Table: Challenges of Developing Combined Social Policy in Montenegro – Experience of Croatia

Institute Alternative organized a round table on the topic of “Challenges of Developing Combined Social Policy in Montenegro – Experience of Croatia”. The round table is a first step in implementing the project entitled ‘Challenges of Developing Combined Social Policy in Montenegro.’ The goal of this project is to stimulate the development of combined social…

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Public administration reform

Enhancing Public Administration Reform

Rationalization and modernization of the state administration must be one of the priorities in the subsequent process of accession to the EU. Last year, the process of state administration reform was characterized by the adoption of new laws. These new laws, such as the Law on Civil Servants and State Employees, are a precondition for…

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Accountable public finances

Lack of anti-corruption policy in the system of public procurement in Montenegro

Having in mind that the area of public procurement represents one of the focal points of corruption in Montenegro, the issue of tackling corruption is not adequately addressed in the Strategy for development of the public procurement system covering the period from 2011 to 2015. The Strategy, as well as the Action Plan for its…

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EU accession negotiations

Interview for Balkan Insight: Jovana Marović – Research Coordinator

Following her appointment as an NGO representative in the working group for chapter 23 in the process of negotiations for accession to the EU, Jovana Marović, research coordinator at Institute Alternative, had an interview with Balkan Insight on 12 March 2012 1. How many non-governmental organizations applied to have their representatives included in the working…

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