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Situation in Budva should be resolved within the law without political interference
Institute Alternative (IA), Center for Investigative Journalism of Montenegro (CIN CG), Media Centre and the Centre for Civic Education (CCE) condemn the police intrusion into premises of the Budva City Hall, violence and arrests of municipal officials, civil servants and citizens. We appeal for the detainees to be released, and the police and the Prosecutor’s…
21 municipalities plan to hire over 900 employees
Despite public administration optimisation measures, that are still in force and prescribe a 10 percent reduction of employees at the local level, twenty-one Montenegrin municipalities plan to hire 915 employees, during this, election year, and next year. The Law on Local Self-Government from 2018 put municipalities under obligation to adopt human resources plans, which project…
EU accession negotiations, Public administration reform, Rule of law
First Impressions on Non-paper for Chapters 23 and 24
A new non-paper for chapters 23 and 24 in Montenegro will be published soon. Here are our first comments for daily newspapers Vijesti: In general, one not really positive image. This report is not that much about critics as it is ”faded” and testifies to more than worrying stagnation, bearing in mind that we are…
Police to Stop Discriminating Participants of Public Assemblies
Action for Human Rights (HRA) and Institute Alternative (IA) urge Police Administration to harmonise their actions and to stop selective treatments of participants of different public assemblies. During the general ban of public assemblies, police allowed citizens to gather without any restrictions, while they were warning the participants of the car-protests who were celebrating saints…
Workshop on COVID-19 Pandemic in the Western Balkans: Effects on Democracy, Rule of Law, and Civil Society
TEN members took part at the closed-door workshop „The COVID-19 Pandemic in the Western Balkans: Effects on Democracy, Rule of Law, and Civil Society“ organised by the Aspen Institute Germany. The workshop gathered an expert community from the EU and the region, along with the officials from the EU and its member states. As a…
Accountable public finances, Rule of law
Montenegrin citizens do not know what public procurement means
Survey results on public opinion showed that the number of citizens who do not know what is public procurement had almost doubled. Even 71% citizens explicitly stated that they did not know what public procurement meant and could not describe the term in a few words. Ana Đurnić, Public Policy Researcher at Institute Alternative (IA)…
Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations
Public procurement 2019: Increasing spending, decreasing competitiveness
According to the latest 2019 Public Procurement Report issued by the Ministry of Finance, the competitiveness of public procurement procedures in Montenegro has never been lower. As a rule, low competition intensity means low quality of procured goods, works and services. When we add to that the highest recorder public procurement budget expenditure, the picture…
CSOs from Montenegro and Serbia call for the lowering of tensions
Candidates for the membership in the European Union should resolve the disputed issues in the spirit of regional cooperation, stated ten civil society organisations from Montenegro and Serbia, adding that it is necessary to urgently calm the tensions between the two countries. In a joint statement, CSOs pointed out that, at a time when leading…
Public Call for the Abolition or Reduction of the Measure which Bans Public Assemblies
Human Rights Action (HRA) and Institute Alternative (IA) call on the National Coordination Body (NKT) and the respected minister of health to abolish the ban on public assemblies in Montenegro. We think that amid abolishing many measures for suppression and prevention of spread of the new coronavirus, the need for banning public assemblies has ceased…
Who paid EUR12,935 to Zoran Jelić?
Below you can take a look at the infographic on the mysterious income of one of the members of the Senate of the State Audit Institution:
Joint Forces for Public Assemblies
Within the project ‘’Voice Your Rights! – Expanding Space for Free Assemblies” Institute Alternative (IA) supported four civil society organisations. Together with IA and Human Rights Action (HRA) they will monitor public assemblies in the next six months and work on expanding the space for activism. “At the time when we applied for the project,…
Four Mini Grants within the ‘’Voice Your Rights! – Expanding Space for Free Assemblies” project
International Women’s Day March, International Workers’ Day March, Pride Parade, environmental protests, political demonstrations, religious protests– are examples of public assemblies where citizens want to express their beliefs and demands to public authorities. Four more organisations have joined our efforts to improve freedom of public assembly in the upcoming period, with the support of the…