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Europe Day: Movie night at Institute Alternative
On the occasion of May 9th, Europe Day, the Institute Alternative organised a movie night for students at premises of the Institute Alternative. Students had the opportunity to watch two documentaries: • Europe: From WWII To Today’s European Union (2014) – Documentary shows the period from the World War II, the chronically ordered events of…
Ten municipalities plan to hire over 450 employees
Human resources plans of ten municipalities show that they need to hire 457 people in this and next year. However, the estimated needs for hiring are not sufficiently explained nor their effect on the implementation of the Public Administration Optimisation Plan. Only four local self-governments have made human resources plans within the legal deadline, by…
Positive effects of optimisation?
In the lastest report on implementation of the Public Sector Optimisation Plan, Ministry of Public Administration, striving to come up with positive effects of the Optimisation Plan, claims that there has been an impact on public spending. It uses the share of gross salaries in the public sector in the GDP structure, concluding that “a…
Blog: One Hundred Days of the “Envelope Affair”
The envelope that contained EUR 97,000 is just the tip of the iceberg. The visible part. The part that was recorded. Others did not record similar instances. Or they are still not in the same position as DK. But we have seen plenty already in the audio and video recordings of NGOs and political parties,…
New report on the Public Finance Management Reform (PFM) Programme
We have prepared a report on on the implementation of Public Finance Management (PFM) Reform Programme, which cross-refers the official data and covers some of the less studied aspects of the PFM reform. According to the official Government reports on the implementation of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Reform Programme, one-third of the planned activities…
Only two ministries announced public discussions planned in 2019
More than half of the ministries are violating the legal obligation to publish the work programme for the current year, while only two ministries have published a list of laws and strategies to be subject of public discussions in 2019. Planning and preparation for public discussions and consultations are one of the important preconditions for…