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Press release: State authorities should publish lists of their employees
More than two thirds of state authorities breached their legal obligation and didn’t publish the lists of civil servants and state employees at the Internet what negatively affects transparency of public administration work. Out of 52 authorities, defined by the Decree on the organization and manner of work of state administration, including the authorities within…
Press release: Public Without An Insight Into The Key Document Of Public Administration Reform
Plan for the reorganization of public administration, although adopted at the Government’s session on July 18, is sill not published at the Internet, which is opposite to the Government’s decision on publishing its materials and undermines transparency of its work. The proposal of the report on progress Montenegro achieved in the period between April 25…
Press release: MPs to amend shortcomings of the Budget Law
The Bill on Budget and Fiscal Responsibility contains numerous ambiguities and shortcomings which need to be addressed through amendment procedure in the Parliament. Among other things, increasing transparency of the budget cycle and enabling more significant participation of the Parliament in this process was not achieved; offense liability is still vaguely defined; whereas autonomy of…
The Economist on PPPs in Montenegro
Montenegro was ranked 19th among the 25 states on regional level (Balkan, Central European and Eastern European countries) in the 2012 report of the Economist which evaluates the environment for public private partnerships (PPP). The criteria used for countries’ rankings were the degree of fulfillment of preconditions for realization of PPP projects. They implied assessment…
Press release: Municipal spending in 2012 still a mystery
Only ten municipalities have so far adopted the final budget account (year-end report) for 2012. Although we are already well in the second half of 2013, we are still waiting for a complete information on how the municipality collected and spent funds in the previous year. Therefore, we still do not know how municipalities spent…
Press release: Condemnation of the assault on the journalist of Vijesti and Monitor
Institute Alternative strongly condemns attack on Tufik Softic, journalist of daily Vijesti and weekly Monitor. This case, as well as number of the so far unresolved assaults on journalists, proves that Montenegro is still not an environment in which the opinions can be publicly and openly stated and the issues relevant for the social reforms…