Centre for Civic Education (CCE) assesses that the practice of assigning prosecutors with limited experience to work at the Special State Prosecutor’s Office (SSPO) should be seriously reconsidered, as work on cases within the jurisdiction of the SSPO is a professional privilege, but also an enormous responsibility requiring a high level of expertise and professional… »
A total of EUR 798,134.83 was spent on official travel by MPs of the 28th convocation of the Parliament of Montenegro over less than two and a half years, from the constitution of this parliamentary term on 27 July 2023 until 31 December 2025, according to one of the key findings of the analysis conducted… »
Today’s media landscape, in which the boundary between information and disinformation is constantly being blurred, requires a new generation of professionals ready for rapid changes and technological advancement, and media literacy is not only important for the audience, but also for those who work or plan to work in the media, it was stated at… »
Centre for Civic Education (CCE) has submitted three initiatives to the competent institutions, requesting a long-overdue examination of the spending of more than two million euros in public funds that the University of Montenegro (UoM) and its organisational units allocated in previous years to the Student Parliament of the University of Montenegro (SPUoM), student councils,… »
The Centre for Civic Education (CCE) analysed the activity of MPs in the 28th convocation of the Parliament of Montenegro in the plenary, from 27 July 2023 to 31 March 2026, based on data obtained through requests for free access to information. The findings reveal marked differences in the activities of individual MPs and parliamentary… »
Centre for Civic Education (CCE) warns that the Agency for Prevention of Corruption (APC) has failed for more than a year to issue a clear decision in the conflict of interest case involving APC Council member and attorney Mladen Tomović, despite the fact that the relevant circumstances indicating a conflict of interest and possible influence… »
Following the recent Facebook post by Marica Bulatović, Secretary of the Special Parliamentary Group in the Parliament of Montenegro and member of United Montenegro, which directly attacks the human dignity of transgender persons and opposes the adoption of the Law on Legal Gender Recognition Based on Self-Determination, civil society organisations are joining the demands of… »
The Centre for Civic Education (CCE) points out that the lack of transparency in the spending of student funds at the University of Montenegro (UCG) is not limited solely to the Rectorate and the Student Parliament of the University of Montenegro (SPUCG), but that the same practice is also present at UCG’s organisational units. For… »
The societies of the Western Balkans today remain fundamentally distant from the values symbolised by 9 May – Europe Day and Victory over Fascism Day. The growing revisionism, nationalism, and relativisation of crimes, accompanied by an increasingly weak institutional response to such phenomena, are deeply concerning, it was stated, among other things, during the programme… »
Regional cooperation among judicial institutions, the legal profession, and civil society plays a crucial role in combating hate speech, discrimination, and hate crimes, as well as in strengthening the protection of the rights of LGBTIQ persons, it was emphasised during the regional consultative meeting for judges, prosecutors, lawyers, and civil society representatives organised by the… »