July 2011 – Centre for Civic Education

Year of bad practice?

Centre for Civic Education (CCE) reminds the public that a year ago (on 27 July 2010) the Parliament of Montenegro passed the Law on Amendments to the General Law on Education. That text introduced provision that 220 headmasters of elementary and secondary schools in Montenegro will be elected by the Minister of Education, which led… »

Legalised corruption?

There’s no doubt that many levers of this government have been shaken. Without a skilled, committed and comprehensive effort, however, this in itself will not make its own collapse… Legalised corruption? – (pdf)

What does NCEI and to whom is it responsible?

Centre for Civic Education (CCE) estimates as irresponsible and unacceptable the behaviour of authorities that were addressed regarding submission of narrative and financial reports on the National Council for European Integration (NCEI). The process of collection of these seemingly simple data proved to be unusually slow, and also part of the collected information revealed concerning… »

Whom students should address to exercise their rights?

Centre for Civic Education (CCE) warns that students of the Law Faculty (LF) at the University of Montenegro (UoM) can’t get information if they can exercise their rights guaranteed under the Statute of UoM, as well as by Agreement on studying because they can’t get a diploma, and many can’t get even the certificate of… »

Principles on sale

In the eve of the long time announced vote on granting or denying the support to the mayor Miomir Mugosa, Centre for Civic Education (CCE) considers as very important clarification of this whole debate in which there were various references to the principles, but the essence comes down to a mere to trade with these…… »

Pressure on professional and sustainable work of independent media

Joint reaction on the occasion of destroying of the two cars of daily “Vijesti”… Pressure on professional and sustainable work of independent media – (pdf)

Stopgaps do not give answers

Reaction to the allegations of the dean of Law Faculty Ranko Mujovic… Stopgaps do not give answers – (pdf)

Systematic problems must be addressed in systematic manner

Centre for Monitoring (CEMI) and the Centre for Civic Education (CCE) request the introduction of the mandatory publishing of property records of managers and staff at the University of Montenegro and other university units… Systematic problems must be addressed in systematic manner – (pdf)

End of term of office, what are the results for the Law Faculty?

Centre for Civic Education (CCE) calls the outgoing dean of the Law Faculty (LF) Ranko Mujovic to inform the public on the effects and achievements of his term of office regarding results related to the improvement of the quality of work of LF. It is very hard to obtain these information opposed to those concerning… »

Return the institute of civic initiative in the Constitution

Centre for Civic Education (CCE) recently sent to the Government of Montenegro an initiative to open the process of changing constitutional norm that defines “the right of civic initiative”. From the Office of the Prime Minister a negative answer came with explanation: “… that for the Government as subject of proposing changes of the Constitution,… »