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Funny Games with Serious Stuff
All of us who follow the “exciting” world of oversight of public finances were shocked twice last week: with news on the announcement of the withdrawal of the Minister of Finance as well as with the rumors about his potential successors. Someone, obviously well informed (reported by Pobjeda and Portal analitika),claims that it is most…
Public administration reform, Rule of law
Meeting with the Finnish Minister of Interior
Research coordinator, Jovana Marović, participated in the meeting with the Finnish Minister of Interior Paivi Rasanen. During the meeting, they discussed about the key challenges in the negotiation process, with a special focus on Chapters 23 and 24 – Judiciary and fundamental rights and Justice, freedom and security. Jovana presented to the Minister the problems…
How to measure corruption?
-Too many zeroes for progress- The sentence „Montenegro must show some measurable results in fight against coruption“ is being repeated in the Montenegrin political discourse by the representatives of the European institutions, politicians, civil society, almost like a mantra. And the universal answer to all questions and all dilemmas is that there are no any,…
The Appointment of the Chief Special Prosecutor
-and other topical questions on reform of the Special Prosecutor’s Office It would not be a good scenario if the President of the Supreme Court “installs” her candidate for the Chief Special Prosecutor, as speculated by the media, but it also would not be good to be elected by the High State Prosecutor, at his…
Recordings of the Parliamentary Committee Sessions to be Published
Parliament should further bring closer its work to citizens and enable live streaming of the committee meetings, which is already the practice in the region or, at least, publish audio recordings from these meetings. Institute Alternative has sent a letter to the Secretary General of the Parliament, with initiative to enable live streaming of all…
Public Procurements and Accountability
In Montenegro, one of the main problems when it comes to public procurement is the lack of accountability for violations of the Law on Public Procurement. Moreover, not every possible violation in public procurement procedure has been determined by this Law. However, amendments to the Law on Public Procurement have not dealt with these issues,…
Anticorruption Committee still Searching for its Position
Although the Anti-Corruption Committee has initiated many major issues during 2014, regarding risks of corruption in public procurement, there are still fundamental problems which limit, to a large extent, positioning of this working body of the Parliament in the institutional frame for fight against the corruption. As a significant improvement should be noted that the…
Montenegrin MPs are Difficult to Reach via Email
Level of availability of Montenegrin MPs for communication via email is low, according to the research conducted by Institute Alternative and designed to determine the response rate of Montenegrin MPs to email messages sent to addresses listed on the parliamentary website. Institute Alternative conducted research aimed at identifying the level of availability of MPs for…
Equal Chances for All Media in Montenegro?
The research coordinator, Jovana Marović has participated in the project carried out by Centre for Civic Education „Equal opportunities for all media in Montenegro?“, which is supported by the Embassy of Federal Republic of Germany in Montenegro. Jovana researched the part of analysis which refers to procurement and media advertising of public administration. This part…
Better Oversight Through Enhancing the Control Mechanisms
Having in mind the separation of powers and the role of the legislative branch of government that controls the executive, one might say that the central role of the Parliament is to exercise political control over the work of the Government, as well as over the process of accession of Montenegro to the European Union.…
Public Policy School Licensed ahead of the IV Generation
After we have initiated the implementation of licensing procedure for our programme “Public Policy School” in accordance with the Law on Education, by the decision of National Council for Education brought on December 23rd, the importance of our School as an official programme for the acquisition of knowledge as well as skills in the field…
Authorities Not Reacting to Recruitment Abuses
Administrative inspection has not adequately responded to our initiative and failed to examine the extent to which the job mediation is used to circumvent the mandatory rules of staffing in the public administration. Following the findings of the regular monitoring of recruitment and promotion in state authorities, which IA has been conducting two years in…