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Unconvincing view of political impartiality in the state administration
Replies to our initiatives addressed to the Ethics Committee and the Administrative Inspection related to the nomination of civil servants for local elections indicate passivity of these institutions and the vagueness of legal regulations governing political impartiality of civil servants. The Ethics Committee and the Administrative Inspection are of the opinion that running for local…
Lectures of the 3rd module held – Public Policy School
Lectures within the III module of the 2014 Public Policy School were held on Saturday and Sunday, May 17 and 18, 2014. The lecture entitled “Evaluation of Public Policies” was presented by Dragisa Mijacic, Executive Director of Institute for Territorial Economic Development (InTER) from Serbia. Agenda of the III module of Public Policy School is…
Press release: Citizens of Podgorica can’t access the electoral lists
Less than two weeks before election day, the Electoral Commission of the Capital Podgorica has not yet made public the electoral lists containing names of nominees for councilors of the City Parliament. As stipulated by the Law on Election of Councilors and Members of the Parliament „municipal election commission shall have its website to immediately…
Press release: Is there political will for true participation in OGP?
Montenegro, a member of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), is late with implementing its OGP obligations and still has not delivered the first version of its second Action Plan to the OGP Secretariat. Although a member of the global Open Government Partnership initiative (OGP), Montenegro is late with meeting its obligations and still has not…
Five stars for IA’s transparency
Institute Alternative (IA) is among the most transparent think tanks in the world, according to a survey conducted by an international non-profit organization Transparify. In the report of this organization, published on May 7, IA received a five stars rating for transparency, together with the Centre for Research and Monitoring (CEMI) and the Centre for…
Lecture of professor Zoran Stojiljković held
Lecture of professor Zoran Stojiljković was held on May 5, 2014, within the framework of Public Policy School. Professor Stojiljković spoke about creation of anti-corruption policies, as well as public policy research in electoral offer. The relation between program positions of political subjects and their actual pragmatic political positioning and defining, as well as the…