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Will Montenegro be ready to start closing negotiating chapters by the end of the year?
Montenegro is close to receiving the closing benchmarks for chapters 23 and 24, Dritan Abazović said last week during the Prime Minister’s question time in the Assembly of Montenegro. Recently, in Brussels, he claimed that this can be done by the end of this year. “I am sure that there is great optimism for Montenegro…
Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations, Public administration reform
Amendments to the Public Procurement Law lack reform impetus
The Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Public Procurement is making steps towards simplifying procedures and clarifying legal provisions that could and/or have been so far subject to different interpretations in use. While praising such procedural improvements, we note that these amendments lack reform zest, for which we have also seen the need…
While Affairs Pile Up, Parliament Needs to Step In
We have sent proposals to MPs to intensify oversight activities, reminding them that most of the committees have not yet adopted annual activity plans, while they failed to discuss important reports, including the semi-annual report of the police director on the fight against organised crime. Reiterating the relevance of our last year’s proposals, we pointed…
Gender Mainstreaming of Strategic Planning Training Organized
In order to bring the process of gender mainstreaming closer to civil servants working on the design and implementation of strategic planning, on April 8 in Kolašin, we held a training ”Strategic Planning for Gender Equality”. Project Coordinator, Nikoleta Pavićević, said that the training was intended primarily for officials who attended the Education Program for…
Gender Mainstreaming of IPA Programming Training Organized
Institut Alternative held a Training on Gender Mainstreaming of IPA Programming and strenghtened capacities of 20 civil servants, as well as representatives of civil society organizations Co-financed by the European Union Co-financed by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Institut Alternative organized a Training on Gender Mainstreaming of IPA (Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance) Programming and…
Ministry to Enable Inclusive Policy-Making Process
In order to make a more inclusive process of creating laws and strategies, it is necessary to expand the platform for the participation of public and civil society through the amendments of the Decree on the election of NGO representatives to the working bodies of state administration. The Institute Alternative has sent an initiative to…
Parliamentary Committees to Re-Launch their Work
The work of parliamentary committees is not conditioned by the dynamics of plenary sessions and we point out that it is especially important that parliamentary committees initiate comprehensive discussion of acts that are in the parliamentary procedure. All working bodies have been passive in the period when disagreements on how to end the current political…
Public administration reform, Rule of law
The rights and interests of victims of crime to be in the focus of the competent authorities
Montenegro lacks a systematic approach to the protection of victims of crime, and we can not criticise individual links and parts within the system, but we need to create a system in which the victim will feel protected all the time, from the moment it is reported to the end of the proceedings. This was…
The new decision of the Agency: Bošković broke the Law on Prevention of Corruption
In the repeated procedure ordered by the Administrative Court, the Agency for Prevention of Corruption has made a new Decision and decided that the current MP in the Parliament of Montenegro, and former minister of defence Predrag Bošković, violated Article 12 paragraph 5 of the Law on Prevention of Corruption, as he earned 24 000…
Why is the evaluation of EU support important to the rule of law?
The European Court of Auditors has confirmed the EU weakness to produce comprehensive changes in the rule of law in the Western Balkans with the current approach, but it also offered recommendations for better incentives and conditions. The lack of political will, of ownership of reforms and marginalization of civil society – are the main…
EU accession negotiations, Public administration reform
New Project: Early Integration for Gender Equality
In 2022, Institute Alternative started implementing a new project, with the aim of contributing to a better understanding of measures of early integration into the European Union (EU) for the improvement of gender equality in Montenegro. Overall objective of the project ”Early Integration for Gender Equality” is to contribute to the inclusive and gender-sensitive process…
No progress towards the EU without the Parliament
It was necessary to consult the Parliament prior to drafting an Action Plan which aims to address key recommendations from the European Commission’s Report. The need for a comprehensive amendment of the Law on Prevention of Corruption goes beyond the scope of electoral reform. This was pointed out today by Ana Đurnić, who on behalf…