April 2013 – Page 2

Quality of governance in state government bodies

epa03644178 A businessman uses a tablet computer at a park in Tokyo, Japan, 29 March 2013. Japan's unemployment rate edged up by 0.1 percentage points to 4.3 per cent in February 2013, the government said 29 March 2013. The number of unemployed people dropped by 120,000 from a year earlier to 2.77 million, falling year-on-year for the 33rd consecutive month, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said. EPA/KIYOSHI OTA

The latest public opinion surveys in Croatia reveal the decline of trust of Croatian citizens in intentions and capabilities of any political option to deal with numerous problems successfully. In parallel, citizens’ support for direct democracy movements has been on the rise, not simply as a correction but rather an alternative to parliamentary democracy. Therefore,…

How to find inspiration for a more effective fight against corruption?

epa03644359 Peter Leonardy, initiator of the so-called 'Zeitgeist Forum' examines the large hands of a clock made around 1900 by the company Benedikt Schneider and sons in Karlsruhe, Germany, 29 March 2013.During the night of the 30 March 2013 the time is switched to summer time. Clocks will 'spring forward' by one hour EPA/ULI DECK

The objective of this study is to document European civil society organizations’ (CSOs) best practices in combating corruption. The presented strategies and tactics could serve as an inspiration for similar anti-corruption efforts. The study is structured in two parts. Part one contains a map of European civil society organizations combating corruption listed in chapter 2.…

New anti-corruption strategy this year

Zagreb, 24.04.2013 - Ravnatelj USKOK-a Dinko Cvitan, ministar pravosuða Orsat Miljeniæ i savjetnik Predsjednika Republike za nacionalnu sigurnost Saa Perkoviæ tijekom sjednice Nacionalnog vijeæa za praæenje provedbe Strategije suzbijanja korupcije na temu "Vrednovanje uèinaka i analiza Strategije suzbijanja korupcije iz 2008. godine". foto FaH/ Lana SLIVAR DOMINIÆ /ds

Justice Minister Orsat Miljenic on Wednesday announced that by the end of the year Croatia would have a new strategy to fight corruption and a revised action plan in that regard. “The idea is to have fewer measures than now”, Miljenic said in parliament at a meeting of the National Council to Monitor the Implementation…

Public is best controller of election campaign financing

Zagreb, 19.04.2013 - Predsjednik Odbora za Ustav, Poslovnik i politièki sustav Sabora Peða Grbin i predsjednik TIH-a Nikola Kristiæ tijekom okruglog stola "Kako kontrolirati financiranje predizbornih kampanja" u organizaciji Transparency International Hrvatska (TIH). foto FaH/ Damir SENÈAR /ds

Croatia has one of the best legislative frameworks to control election campaigning but it is still necessary to better apply the legislation which is why government bodies and nongovernmental organisations and especially citizens are urged to take more effort in this regard, a round table discussion titled “How to control election campaign financing” organised by…

„Right to Good Administration in Croatian Practice

GONG is organizing conference „Right to Good Administration in Croatian Practice“ which will be held on 26th April (Friday) 9 am, at the International hotel in Zagreb. Presented at the conference will be the results of the Index of Good Governance in Croatia (DUH index), a research including analysis of all ministries, the Government, the…

EP concerned because of the law on strategic investments

epa03621524 Members of the European Parliament are voting during the plenary session in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, 13 March 2013. The European Parliament rejected the compromise of EU governments for the financial planning of the European Union until 2020. EPA/PATRICK SEEGER

The European Parliament, meeting in a plenary session in Strasbourg on Thursday, adopted by a large majority of votes the last resolution on Croatia before it joins the European Union on July 1, saying that the country is completely ready for membership and calling for further reforms so that citizens of Croatia could profit from…