The Institute aims to be involved in the process of negotiation for membership in the European Union on the basis of external contribution, through the development of practical policy proposals, providing recommendations and suggestions for improving this phase of integration. Also, IA actively and directly participates in this process within the working group for Chapter 23 – Judiciary and fundamental rights, in preparation for the country’s accession to the European Union. In addition to participating in the creation of anti-corruption policies and mechanisms in the context of the Chapter 23, IA is, in accordance with its fields of research, directly interested in the progress under Chapters: 5 (Public Procurement), 24 (Justice, Freedom and Security) and 32 (Financial control).
Research Coordinator at Institute Alternative, Jovana Marović, participated at the meeting with members of the COELA working group, which was held in Podgorica, on May 26, 2014. Judicial reform, fight against corruption, elections held in 12 local self-governments, as well as other important issues in the context of the negotiation process on Chapters 23 and…
Today we had a press conference at which the second semi-annual report of the Coalition of NGOs for monitoring negotiations with the EU in the framework of Chapter 23 – Judiciary and Fundamental Rights – the situation in the areas of judicial reform and human rights in Montenegro (covering the period from 1 October 2013…
Our researcher, Dina Bajramspahić, participated in the meetings with Dirk Lange and other officials of the European Commission (EC), as one of the representatives of the Coalition for Monitoring the Accession Negotiations within the Chapter 23. Within the working visit to Brussels organised between May 19 and 22, 2014, five representatives of the Coalition of…
Jovana Marović, research Coordinator at Institute Alternative, participated in the second seminar within the framework of the project “Thinking for Governance”, held in Bratislava on March 20-21, 2014. The project aims to exchange experiences between the Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary) and civil society organizations from the Western Balkans on the role…
Four representatives of IA are members of the working groups for preparation of bills and analytical documents of key importance for securing improvements in the field of administrative inspections, public procurement, internal police oversight and state audit. Following research and analytical work and publication of our findings, we are actively working on advocating recommendations for…
Research paper authored by Jovana Marović, Research Coordinator at Institute Alternative, entitled “Active citizenship as a precondition for the development of democracy in the European Union”, has been published in the Proceedings of Faculty of Political Science “European Citizen in Times of Crisis”, edited by Slobodan Samardžić and Ivana Radić Milosavljević. The Conference Proceedings consist…
