EU accession negotiations, Public administration reform

Press Release: Civil Society For Our Administration

Institute Alternative agreed to establish the network entitled “Our Administration”, together with its partners Centre for Investigative Journalism from Podgorica, Bonum from Pljevlja, New Horizon from Ulcinj, and Natura from Kolašin. Hereby, the implementation of the project “Civil Society for Good Governance: To Act and Account!”, funded by the European Union (EU) in the framework…

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Accountable public finances

Cooperation of SAI and Prosecution – you take up where I left off

The State Prosecutor’s Office should not use the absence of criminal charges as an excuse, but also, the State Audit Institution (SAI) does not have to be absolutely sure about the outcome of its criminal charges in order to proactively act, it was assessed at the conference organised yesterday by Institute alternative (IA). The conference…

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Accountable public finances, Public administration reform

Conference announcement: “Auditors and prosecutors on the same task”

The conference is part of the project implemented by Institute Alternative and supported by the British Embassy Podgorica. The project aims at improving the cooperation between these two institutions, which will lead towards a more efficient use of State Audit Institution findings, and greater dissemination of the work and cooperation of these institutions. Given the…

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Blog, Rule of law

Law demands an agreement, but…

After all the twists and the upheaval that followed the appointment of the Head of Special police unit, I would like to express a deep personal belief that the obstruction is not the issue, but the lack of capacity to reach compromise. First of all, we should reiterate the legal formulation: the head of the…

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Blog, Parliamentary program, Public administration reform

Talks and agreements

It seems that the parliamentary dialogue process is heading in a good direction. Such conclusion is to be made considering the series of events: the meeting of political leaders, opposition parties meetings, the confirmation of SNP (Socialist People’s Party) to participate in the dialogue and participation in the interim government of the authority and opposition,…

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Rule of law

Consultative conference ’’Civic control over police and public critic”

Public policy researcher, Dina Bajramspahić, participated in a consultative conference of the Council for the Civic control of the Police and civil society, on February 5th called ’’Civic control of the Police and public critic’’. The conference gathered representatives of 20 organizations for human rights and democratic transition. Dina has presented Institute alternative’s research finding,…

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