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Funny Games with Serious Stuff
All of us who follow the “exciting” world of oversight of public finances were shocked twice last week: with news on the announcement of the withdrawal of the Minister of Finance as well as with the rumors about his potential successors. Someone, obviously well informed (reported by Pobjeda and Portal analitika),claims that it is most…
Public administration reform, Rule of law
Meeting with the Finnish Minister of Interior
Research coordinator, Jovana Marović, participated in the meeting with the Finnish Minister of Interior Paivi Rasanen. During the meeting, they discussed about the key challenges in the negotiation process, with a special focus on Chapters 23 and 24 – Judiciary and fundamental rights and Justice, freedom and security. Jovana presented to the Minister the problems…
How to measure corruption?
-Too many zeroes for progress- The sentence „Montenegro must show some measurable results in fight against coruption“ is being repeated in the Montenegrin political discourse by the representatives of the European institutions, politicians, civil society, almost like a mantra. And the universal answer to all questions and all dilemmas is that there are no any,…
The Appointment of the Chief Special Prosecutor
-and other topical questions on reform of the Special Prosecutor’s Office It would not be a good scenario if the President of the Supreme Court “installs” her candidate for the Chief Special Prosecutor, as speculated by the media, but it also would not be good to be elected by the High State Prosecutor, at his…
Recordings of the Parliamentary Committee Sessions to be Published
Parliament should further bring closer its work to citizens and enable live streaming of the committee meetings, which is already the practice in the region or, at least, publish audio recordings from these meetings. Institute Alternative has sent a letter to the Secretary General of the Parliament, with initiative to enable live streaming of all…
Public Procurements and Accountability
In Montenegro, one of the main problems when it comes to public procurement is the lack of accountability for violations of the Law on Public Procurement. Moreover, not every possible violation in public procurement procedure has been determined by this Law. However, amendments to the Law on Public Procurement have not dealt with these issues,…