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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,…