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Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations, Parliamentary program, Public administration reform, Public policy school, Rule of law, Social policy
IA letter to the Prime Minister of Montenegro
We sent a letter to the Prime Minister, Mr. Duško Marković, and invited him to reject Government’s proposal to adopt the priorities of the NGO funding in 2018, without including areas directly related to the priorities of the European integration process, negotiations and strategic plans of the Government and relevant ministries. This firstly refers to…
Cooperation between the Police and the Prosecution is a key challenge in achieving better results in Chapters 23 and 24
State prosecutors and police officers from Montenegro and Serbia have recognized the institute of prosecutorial investigation as a more efficient and effective way of conducting the investigation. However, the cooperation between the two bodies, on which the results of the investigation depend, is still a challenge. This was concluded at a conference devoted to improving…
Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations, Parliamentary program, Public administration reform, Rule of law, Social policy
One third of the ministries does not comply with the Law on NGOs
The Ministry of Interior, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Science, Sustainable Development and Tourism and Public Administration do not plan to allocate funds for projects of non-governmental organisations that could assist them in the implementation of public policies. These ministries did not identify priority areas of public interest and the necessary funds for financing projects and programs…
Civil servants’ accountability in the focus of Public Administration Reform
Accountability at all levels is a key concept for establishing good governance practices in the public administration of Montenegro, as concluded at the panel discussion on the priorities of public administration reform “The end goal of the public administration reform is to make citizens’ life easier, and this is something we all need to keep…
Administrative Inspectorate controlled only the opposition?
Although Ministry of Public Administration claims to build up capacities of the Administrative Inspectorate, opposition-run municipalities were disproportionately a subject of inspection oversight during the last year. The Administrative Inspectorate last year conducted supervision of 107 subjects, out of which 82 were in the bodies and services of the local administration and 25 in the…
Interactive Caviar
A full alignment with the European Court of Human Rights practice is still a commitment to be met by Montenegro. It is what has been consistently written in the progress reports as well as in the Report of the European Commission on Montenegro, published in November 2016. I am sure that the authors of this…