July 2019

Centre for Civic Education (CCE) assesses that the judgement of the Administrative Court Council, composed of Biserka Bukvić, Srđan Klikovac and Mirjana Milić, following the complaint of the former Minister of European Affairs, Chief Negotiator of Montenegro with the EU and Ambassador Aleksandar Andrija Pejović, is political and legally senseless. On 1 February 2018, the… »

Transparency is one of the basis of democratic state that indicates the level of accountability of public sector bodies, including the judiciary, towards citizens. In the judiciary, the significance of this postulate is recognized, but further efforts are needed to effectually implement it, through two-way communication, planned information and education, which would strengthen trust in… »

The increase in crime, not only in Montenegro, but also much wider, leads to the burden of prison facilities and the need to use alternative models of criminal sanctions. In addition, prison sentence, apart from failing to achieve all expected effects, is also significant budgetary burden. Therefore, the introduction of alternative sanctions into our criminal… »

By electing Ms. Vesna Medenica for the third time as President of the Supreme Court of Montenegro, the Judicial Council grossly violated the Constitution, which prohibits in Article 124 (5) the same person from being elected more than twice for the post (“The same person may be elected the president of the Supreme Court no… »

Centre for Civic Education (CCE) welcomes the subsequent prudence of the University of Montenegro (UoM) Management regarding the case of Associate Professor of the Law Faculty of the University of Montenegro, Bojana Lakićević Đuranović. It would be much more beneficial to the UoM itself that this position was taken immediately after the receipt of the… »

Although extremists who propagate certain attitudes are usually identified as persons with religious, sociological or political motives, large number of these extremist radical attitudes are linked to some economic gain and are not related to one of these three motives, as it was concluded at the final public debate ‘Dialogue in the community – prevention… »

The Ministry of Public Administration of the Government of Montenegro did not approve the launching of an electronic petition by which ten non-governmental organizations asked the Government to finally publish information on spending of funds from the budget reserve and the apartments it allocates to its officials. The Ministry of Public Administration, in its response,… »

On Monday, 8 July 2019, the Centre for Civic Education (CCE) submitted to the management of the University of Montenegro (UoM) Proposal to determine violation of academic integrity by the Associate Professor of the Law Faculty of the University of Montenegro, Bojana Lakicevic-Djuranovic and appropriate sanctioning. Also, a criminal charge was submitted to the competent… »

On the occasion of 24 years since the Srebrenica Genocide, the Centre for Civic Education (CCE) and the Human Rights Action (HRA) are reminding of this terrible crime and point out that facing with that crime and support that the Federal Government of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) gave to the Bosnian Serb army that has… »

Due to great public interest, Centre for Civic Education (CCE) publishes part of the documentation in integral form relating to the work ‘The Role and importance of the Court of Justice of the European Union in creating, interpretation and application of Law – Practice’, which an Associate Professor at the Law Faculty of University of… »