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Members of the Government to show respect for their obligations to the Parliament
By not appearing yesterday at the control hearing in the Human Rights and Freedoms Committee, the Minister of Finance and Social Welfare, Milojko Spajić, avoided coming to the parliamentary hearing for the fifth time. Although the ministers in the Government of Montenegro are obliged to respond to the invitation of the committees for control hearing,…
Interview for Vijesti: Behind Closed Doors and Without Public Debate, Once Again
Marko Sošić, Public Policy Researcher at NGO Institute Alternative for daily newspaper ‘’Vijesti’’, on the Government’s work and the budget proposal for 2022: In terms of transparency, not much has changed in the past year – during the term of Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić; budget proposal for the next year does not show a will…
More Decisive Steps are Needed for Public Administration Reform
There is a big gap between the identified problems of politicisation and undue influence on public administration recruitment and the absence of priorities and activities in the Draft Strategy for Public Administration Reform that would target those problems. This was stressed in the comments submitted, by Institute Alternative within the public debate on 2022-2016 Draft…
„Montenegro now!“ – Caution today!
The capital budget for 2022 was presented yesterday – the ratio of the budget for highway and other projects is the most favorable this year to other projects, and that part of the budget is the biggest so far. However, 302 projects are planned for next year, which is almost twice as much than in…
EU enlargement to the WB in the light of the new methodology
On October 19, the European Commission adopted its 2021 Enlargement Package, offering a comprehensive assessment of the state of play and the progress made by the Western Balkans on their individual paths towards the European Union, with a focus on implementing fundamental reforms, as well as clear guidance on the reform priorities ahead. With the…
MPs and Government to redefine their relationship
There is a room for laws on Parliament and the Government to better regulate the mutual relationship between executive and legislative branches of power. This relationship, however, will always be determined by the political context and parliamentary practice – it is concluded at the conference organised by Institute Alternative (IA). Conference “Legislative and Control Function…