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Army and Police Officers Right to Attend Public Assemblies
The Law on the Army and the Law on Internal Affairs allow officers of the Army and Police to attend the protest, party and other political assemblies without wearing uniform. This was highlighted by NGOs Human Rights Action (HRA) and Institute Alternative (IA) in a letter sent to the Chief of General Staff of the…
Clarifications: Call for Proposals ‘’Voice Your Rights! – Expanding Space for Free Assemblies”
C L A R I F I C A T I O N S regarding the Call for Proposals – Small Grants Facility For CSOs from Montenegro, within the project ‘’Voice Your Rights! – Expanding Space for Free Assemblies” Questions asked at the info session: Question 1: Is it recommendable for project activities to be…
Montenegro’s EU Integrations
Our Dina’s great interview for daily newspaper Vijesti on enlargement policy and other aspects of Montenegro’s integration in European Union (EU). 1) New methodology The new methodology is a new important moment for refreshing the idea of enlargement. It is still in the draft form and there is a room for it’s improvement. That is…
EU accession negotiations, Public administration reform
The Administrative Court: The Agency’s Decision on Jelić’s conflict of interest was not legal
The Administrative Court’s Decision states that the Agency for Prevention of Corruption’s (APC) Decision lacks rationale of the statement that the ‘’expert services’’ provided by the public official Zoran Jelić, the senator of the State Audit Institution, to the Prva bank of Montenegro can be linked to scientific, educational, artistic and sports activities. We consider…
EU and Western Balkans: Seizing the Momentum
The European Parliament and the Think for Europe Network (TEN) are organising the panel discussion EU and Western Balkans: Seizing the Momentum Date: 19 February 2020 – 1 to 3 pm Venue: European Parliament, Brussels, room ASP 3G2 Following the publication of the Commission’s Western Balkans Strategy 2018 was supposed to be the ‘year of…
New violence as the consequence of relativising crime
We strongly condemn the attack on the activists of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), the Youth Initiative for Human Rights from Serbia and the forum ZFD at the pro-fascist promotion of the book of war criminal Vojislav Šeselj in Belgrade. On Wednesday evening, 5 February, promotion of the book ‘There was no genocide in Srebrenica’…