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Accountable public finances, Other
Constitutional Court to abolish basis for allocating apartments to the officials
Institute Alternative filed the Initiative to the Constitutional Court of Montenegro for the assessment of the constitutionality of provisions of the Law on the Maintenance of Residential Buildings, which the Government uses as a basis for issuing decisions on resolving the housing needs of public officials. We find that the by-laws regulating issues beyond this…
Panel discussion in Belgrade: Why Security-Intelligence Services Reform Should Be a Mandatory Part of EU Membership Negotiations?
What are the mechanisms of capturing security-intelligence services, how are they used for capturing other sectors and why this problem deserves greater attention within eurointegrations – these are the topics of the discussion that will be organized on June 4, 2019 at the Media Center (Grand hall, 2nd floor, Terazije 3, Belgrade, starting at 10am.…
11 NGOs sent a letter to the President of the Judicial Council
The Institute Alternative is one of the signatories of the letter that eleven civil society organizations have sent to the President of the Judicial Council of Montenegro, Mr. Mladen VukÄŤević on the decision on the candidates’ application for the election of the President of the Supreme Court and the candidates for election to the presidents…
EU accession negotiations, Public administration reform
European Commission’s 2019 Montenegro Report in Numbers
The latest European Commission’s Report on Montenegro published on 29 May 2019 continuously highlights limited progress which indicates the country’s failure to implement advanced reforms with measurable and visible results. The average assessment across all 33 Chapters is minimal progress (“some progress”), and only “backsliding” and “no progress” are worse than that. In numbers, the…
Frontrunner in a slow race
This year’s European Commission report on Montenegro puts under question the country’s leading position compared to the rest of the region. Some explicit critical remarks are in line with the Institute Alternative’s findings and postpone closing of Chapters 23 and 24. Montenegro, along with Serbia, another country in the official process of EU membership negotiations,…
The title of the “frontrunner” is a test and a burden
Montenegro must finally move forward from simulating the reforms and comprehend that being called or considered the frontrunner in the EU integration processes is not something it should lean on but rather a burden and a litmus test. This was announced at the roundtable “Shaping the Way for Montenegro’s EU Integration – Key Challenges and…