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Disciplinary Procedures in the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP)
The Disciplinary Commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Montenegro identified the responsibility of police officers in 16 cases during the year 2022, while in 7 cases, police officers were acquitted of disciplinary responsibility. This Commission is responsible for conducting procedures for serious violations of official duty. The report from this commission does not…
A call to prevent further undermining of local-level recruitment
The members of the new parliamentary majority have decided to follow in the footsteps of their predecessors and ignore clear warnings from the European Commission, once again proposing amendments to the Law on Local Self-Government that lower recruitment conditions. We also remind you that the same amendments were proposed last year, which, among other…
Phantom savings in the budget for the year 2024
Nearly a month after the legal deadline, the Government has submitted the budget proposal to the Parliament – some of our key observations are as follows (originally published in an article for the daily newspaper Vijesti). Phantom Savings Savings or rationalizations are absent in both the budget rebalances for the year 2023 and the…
About inspections from the anti-corruption perspective
A summary of the challenges in the work of inspection bodies, and their cooperation with the judiciary, independent institutions and civil society from the perspective of a more effective fight against corruption was in the focus of the first meeting organised within the project Inspect to Protect: Turning Inspectorates Into Anti-Corruption Allies. On December 8th,…
Parliamentary program, Public administration reform
IA took part in the Round Table ‘Law on Government – Open Issues’
On December 12, IA participated in the Round Table ‘Law on Government – Open Issues,’ organized by the Ministry of Public Administration in cooperation with the Association of Lawyers of Montenegro. In addition to our participation in the Working Group for drafting the Draft Law on Government, during this Round Table, we once again presented…
Open sessions and/or open government?
In the debate over the decision of the 44th Government to stop the practice of broadcasting its sessions, introduced by the previous 43rd Government, the focus often shifts away from fundamentally important issues related to the transparency of the government’s work. Numerous documents from the government’s sessions and its working bodies should be disclosed, which…