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Preparation of Government’s Work Programme for 2021 should be opened for citizens’ proposals
Institute Alternative has been recommending for years that Government’s Work Programme, as the most important act for determining the priorities of the Government’s work, should be opened for public’s suggestions. This recommendation is now actualised in a letter to the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Montenegro, Mr. Zdravko Krivokapić and…
Political Appointments of Top Managers Go Against Professionalisation Promises
The announcements of distribution of top and senior civil service positions are opposite to the previously declared opening of the administration, encouragement of the best candidates to get the jobs and the overall professionalisation of state administration. Institute Alternative has previously pointed out that bidding by names and party affiliation when filling managerial positions, especially…
Strong Budgetary Inspection in Three Steps
During the entire mandate of the former Government, workplaces in the Budgetary inspection were vacant. Even when the inspection was functioning, it did not have good results – it did not file misdemeanour charges nor was the data about its work available to the public (minutes were marked as INTERNAL). Budgetary inspection could play the…
To Defend Freedom on Social Media but also to Increase Accountability
The right to freedom of expression in democratic societies should be restricted only when there is an urgent need for it and this restriction should be the exception. In Montenegro there is no law that regulate area of social networks, but that does not mean that citizens are not sanctioned, sometimes justifiably, sometimes unjustifiably, for…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Local Finances, Optimisation and Covid19
Old question – Do municipalities exist to provide services to citizens or for some people there to receive salaries and parties to buy votes? The answer was sought in the Relfektor show on TV Vijesti, where Marko Sošić was a guest. There were interesting things, for example: How did the Municipality of Pljevlja functioned “quite…
Conclusions from the Consultative Meeting „Young online“
Institute Alternative (IA) organised consultative meeting with young people from Montenegro. Meeting was organised within the project “Make Future Together: EU and the Western Balkans from the Youth Perspective”. The topic of the today’s “Young online” meeting was social networks, as well as freedom of expression in the Internet. More than fifteen young people –…