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Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations
Infographic: 150 million euro for only 25 companies
We prepared an infographic on the public procurement spending in 2017. Data from the Public Procurement Administration’s Report for 2017 show that in that year, spending for public procurement exceeded half a billion euro and that less than 1% of the bidders earned 1/4 of that money. Check out the other interesting data in the…
Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations, Parliamentary program, Public administration reform, Rule of law
Coalition “Cooperating Towards Goal”: Government to Enable Co-financing of the EU Projects
Coalition “Cooperating Towards Goal” calls upon the Ministry of Finance and the Government of Montenegro to urgently fulfil their legal obligations and adopt the Decree on co-financing of the EU projects for national non-governmental organisations. The state made a commitment to support NGO projects that have been selected through demanding and complex EU tenders, taking…
Five Stars for Institute Alternative: Amongst the Most Transparent in the World for the Fourth Time
In the report published today, Institute Alternative received five stars for transparency, along with the Center for Democratic Transition (CDT) and the Center for Research and Monitoring (CeMI). Once again, we found ourselves in the company of renowned think thanks around the world, such as Amnesty International, Bruegel, Freedom House and others. “Transparency continues to…
Draft Law on State Administration: Less Control and Transparency
Current Draft Law on State Administration removes obligations of the state administration towards the Parliament, thus limiting its control function; the Draft is not harmonised with a number of other regulations. In our comments provided during the public discussion, we warned of the inconsistency of the proposed solutions with Rules of Procedure of the Parliament…
Other, Public administration reform
Government Hiding the Dynamic Plan
Despite the Government’s persistent boasting about participation of civil society in Montenegrin negotiations, it continues to create parallel negotiating structure and parallel documents besides those already in force, excluding NGOs from its preparation and monitoring. Having established the Council for Rule of Law as a parallel structure to the Working Groups for Chapters 23 and…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Municipalities To Open Its Budgets For Citizens
A third of Montenegrin municipalities do not report on citizens’ participation in public discussions on their budgets; available data show that citizens generally did not participate in budget discussions for this year, with the exception of the municipalities of Bar, Plav and Žabljak. There were no citizens at public discussion on local budgets for 2018…