Government of Montenegro puts private interests ahead of the interest of public to know

12. 07. 2019.

Petition “Our money, their flats and secret funds” stopped in its tracks The Government of Montenegro Ministry of Public Administration (MPA) did not approve the launch of the e-petition of ten NGOs asking the Government to publish, at last, the information concerning the expenditure of budgetary reserve funds and the flats allocated to officials. In…

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IA at the Fair of NGOs

03. 07. 2019.

Institute Alternative was one of the 36 promoters that presented work of their organisation on the Fair of non – governmental organisations, held on June 22, 2019 in Berane. The fair called „NGO EXPO 2019“ was organised for the fourth time, and during the past years this fair gathered citizens and activists from civil society…

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Muk: Montenegro made too little of a progress in fields disputable from the very beginning

03. 07. 2019.

Montenegro has progressed on the European path, but not enough if taking into account the resources invested in this process, primarily the investments of the EU and other international and local actors, stated President of the Managing Board of Institute Alternative, Stevo Muk. Muk commented on the seven years of the Montenegrin negotiations with the…

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Ministry of Finance to Organise a Public Discussion on the Public Procurement Law

27. 06. 2019.

We call upon the Ministry of Finance to organise a public discussion on the Draft Law on Public Procurement in order to enable all the relevant stakeholders to take part in the preparation of this document which will regulate multi-million budgetary spending. Instead of public discussion, on 10 June 2019 the Ministry of Finance announced…

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Unacceptable Draft Law on Classified Information given to the public debate

23. 06. 2019.

Institute alternative repeats dissatisfaction that was already expressed and insist on the respect of the Constitution. It is absolutely unacceptable that Draft Law on Classified Information is adopted in the version given to the public debate. IA will provide comments to the Ministry of Defence during the public debate, and also suggest a concrete and…

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Dissatisfaction with the announcement of the new prohibition on access to information

19. 06. 2019.

Introduction of “abuse of the right to free access to information” in the Law on Free Access to Information would mean giving a discretionary right to authority to evaluate motives of the applicant of request for free access to information, Bajramspahić said on the roundtable “Public information must not be secret!” Dina Bajramspahić, public policy…

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