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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

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

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…

Disappointment by passivity of political parties and voters

epa03621511 Members of the European Parliament raise their hands in a vote 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

GONG, a well-known nongovernmental organisation in charge of monitoring election processes in Croatia, on Monday ascribed a low turnout of 20.8% at Croatia’s first election of its deputies to the European Parliament on Sunday to passivity of political elites and to the fact that the electorate was insufficiently informed about European Union institutions and processes…

GONG “turned” a new page on the old address

11. 04. 2012., Zagreb - Clanovi nestranacke udruge Gong fotografirani u prostorijama udruge na Trgu bana Jelacica. GONG je nestranacka udruga gradjana utemeljena 1997. radi poticanja gradjana na aktivnije sudjelovanje u politickim procesima. Duje Prkut, Nives Miosic, Korana Gacic Fuk, Tina Novak, Tanja Kapusta, Srdjan Novak, Albert Jedrejic, Jelena Berkovic, Danela Zagar, Natalia Mirkovic, Vanja Skoric, Dragan Zelic, Marina Skrabalo, Tamara Capeta, Berto Salaj, Robert Maracic, Iva Pinjusic. Photo: Davor Puklavec/PIXSELL

Explore GONGs’ new web site, much clearer and more attractive, containing more information, that are organized into three main categories: electoral system, good governance and active citizens. In order for information to be of the highest quality possible and for communication to focus on key policies and social processes, the interested public is now able…