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Imprecise provisions of the Law encourage corruption
Imprecise formulations and the possibility of broad interpretation of the provisions of the Law on Public Procurement restrict the possibility of appeal and proving abuses, it was concluded at the yesterday’s panel discussion „How to fight against corruption in public procurement?“, held in Municipality of Bar. As one of the provisions of the Law on…
International conference on public policy in Milan
Representatives of TEN Network, which is composed of Institute Alternative (IA), European Policy Centre (CEP) and European Policy Institute (EPI) have presented the joint paper on successful comparative practices in the linkage of the performance audit and evaluation of public policy at the International conference on public policy in Milan (ICPP 2015). The moderator of…
Press Release: Assessments of the success for Chapter 23 are arbitrary
Semi-annual report on realization of the Action plan for the Chapter 23 abounds with imprecise information, while the assessment of the fulfillment of the measures itself is problematic and leaves a lot of space for arbitrary reporting and the manipulation with the achieved results. The high degree of implementation of the measures, 77% in the…
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…