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Parliament to request the Report on Budget Execution
We appeal to the Ministry of Finance to prepare the report on what was happening with the state budget in the first six months of 2015 and to submit it to the Parliament. It is necessary that the MPs have the data how was the state budget spent based on organisational and functional classification in…
Blog, Public administration reform
Our administration or the non-merit based rule?
In late April, the Institute Alternative (IA) has launched a new internet website. Symbolically, we have named it “My Administration”, to remind people that the government and state authorities are here because of us, and not because of them, i.e. administration itself, which often, encapsulated into the bureaucratic practices, transforms itself into a self-contained apparatus…
Press Release: Conduct checks on the spot related to the Secret Surveillance Measures and request the data from the operators
Data on the Secret Surveillance Measures (SSM) published by judiciary must not remain an exception; and Parliament has to continue with systemic oversight of the implementation of these measures. It is necessary that the Committee on Defense and Security persistently conducts “on the spot” checks and request the data on wiretapping from operators. Based on…
Strengthening the impact of State Audit Institution – The mutual cooperation is necessary
We are still far from effective control of the budget and far from the impact of the State Audit Institution (SAI) we wish for, it was concluded at today’s conference organized by Institute alternative. In this mission, Parliament, Government, Prosecutor’s Office and other institutions must have more active role and they should use the SAI’s…
Reaction: The Government hides the data, while Marković hides the truth
It’s not true that there is no interest of NGOs for obtaining full information about the results of Montenegro in the field of the rule of law. On the opposite, our interest is continuously present, but the Government’s responses don’t exist, they are imprecise or secret. That’s why we can claim that Duško Marković, the…
TRAIN Programme: Workshop in Berlin
Our researcher, Dina Bajramspahić, attended a workshop in Berlin last week (June 23rd -27th), within the TRAIN programme -Fostering policy dialogue in the Western Balkans. The programme brings together 12 representatives of think tanks from the Western Balkans who attended workshops on the topics of communication and skills for advocating recommendations from research before the…