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Law demands an agreement, but…
After all the twists and the upheaval that followed the appointment of the Head of Special police unit, I would like to express a deep personal belief that the obstruction is not the issue, but the lack of capacity to reach compromise. First of all, we should reiterate the legal formulation: the head of the…
Blog, Parliamentary program, Public administration reform
Talks and agreements
It seems that the parliamentary dialogue process is heading in a good direction. Such conclusion is to be made considering the series of events: the meeting of political leaders, opposition parties meetings, the confirmation of SNP (Socialist People’s Party) to participate in the dialogue and participation in the interim government of the authority and opposition,…
Consultative conference ’’Civic control over police and public critic”
Public policy researcher, Dina Bajramspahić, participated in a consultative conference of the Council for the Civic control of the Police and civil society, on February 5th called ’’Civic control of the Police and public critic’’. The conference gathered representatives of 20 organizations for human rights and democratic transition. Dina has presented Institute alternative’s research finding,…
School for sustainable and coherent policies
Institute Alternative continues successful implementation of Public Policy School with the support of the Commission for Allocation of Revenue from Games of Chance. We obtained funding for the fifth year in a row while our proposal received the highest number of points by the selection committee within the category “Non-Formal Education of Children and Youth”.…
The Agency should rather pay attention to the implementation and instead to the violation of the law
Institute Alternative’s reaction to comments of Agency for prevention of corruption to our publication ‘’Happy New Agency!’’ We are taken by surprise with the attitude of the members of the Council of the Agency for prevention of Corruption stating that the Institute Alternative’s case study ‘’Happy New Agency’’ is ‘’badly argumented, unobjective and an orchestrated…
EU accession negotiations, Rule of law
Germia Hill Conference 2016
Milena Milošević, public policy researcher at Institute alternative, has participated at the Germia Hill Conference 2016, held on February 2nd and 3rd in Prishtina. The conference organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo in conjuction with Aspen Institute Germany offered a framework to explicate a complex geopolitical landscape from a South East European…
Parliamentary program, Public administration reform
Improve cooperation with NGOs in order to increase the quality of e-public services
Our representative Milica Milonjić participated at the meeting with the NGOs entitled “Modalities of cooperation for improvement of the eGovernment portal (eUprava) and presentation of e-services” organized by the Ministry of Information Society and Telecommunications. Milica pinpointed the main obstacles in the area of service delivery: Civil servants do not accept changes in the workflow…
New project – Monitoring Freedom of Assembly in the Western Balkans
There is an increased government crackdown on assembly in the Western Balkans, without consistent awareness, monitoring and mapping the issues. Organisations participating in the project have identified threats to the right to freedom of assembly, and found that there is a lack of understanding of the legal framework, international standards and its implementation. The objective…
Parliamentary program, Public administration reform
Agency hides and leaves no trail
By ignoring requests, prohibiting attendance to all forthcoming sessions of the Council and not allowing participation in the session concerning documents for implementation of the Law on Financing Political Parties and Electoral Campaigns, the Agency for Prevention of Corruption continued the practice of concealing its activities from the public eye thus demonstrating that circumvention of…
Interview with Bajramspahić: Regarding public officials, misuse of the Law is still present
Public authorities have made progress regarding protection of personal data, nevertheless the tendency towards misuse of the Law that regulates that area is still present. That misuse is mirrored in conceiving data on public officials, as noted by our public policy researcher, Dina Bajramspahić. In the interview for PR Center regarding Data Protection Day, she…
Parliament powerless before Government’s capital budget
Parliament adopted the budget for 2016 while the MPs have tried to add six new projects to the capital budget, through specific conclusions. We assume that nothing will happen with these six projects because of the systematic problem in development and presentation of the capital budget, which disables Parliament to obligate the Government in this…
Parliamentary program, Public administration reform
Interview for daily “Dan“ – Stevo Muk: Anti-corruption institutions are not prepared for the election year
The president of the Managing board of the Institute Alternative (IA), Stevo Muk, said in an interview for daily “Dan” that the anti-corruption institutions are unprepared for the election year. He also pointed out that the violations of the law marked the establishment of the Agency for Prevention of Corruption. The beginning of implementation of new set…