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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…