In only 2 out of 20 countries analysed is it possible to know who really owns the media and in 10 out of 20 countries not even the media regulators know who really owns the print media and for online media this figure drops to 6. So Access Info Europe is opening for signature the…
„SEC deliberately designed to be passive and cater to party interests“
Instead of electing independent, non-partisan experts with experience in administrating elections to the State Electoral Commission (SEC) in order to make it a truly proactive body, the Parliament has merely voted in “fresh” not-entirely-partisan persons, missing a crucial opportunity to strengthen the role and public image of the SEC – this was the message sent…
Europe 2020 falling by the wayside of the Juncker recovery plan?
The Juncker plan for the recovery of the European economy and the future of the Europe 2020 Strategy, currently facing revision, were the issues covered at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) plenary session, held in Brussels on February 18 and 19. The open question remains how much the European Commission is committed to…
Who wants to join the Constitutional Court (apart from Mladen Bajić)?
Former three-time State Attorney General Mladen Bajić, Constitutional expert and external Committee on the Constitution member Sanja Barić, former Children’s Ombudsman Mila Jelavić, the judge convicting Ivo Sanader and the Croatian Democratic Union Ivana Čalić, former Constitutional Court Justice Nevenka Šernhorst, Municipal Court in Zagreb Justice Zorka Čačić Zagrajski, High Misdemeanour Court Justice Antonija Kovačić,…
Open data as the fuel for democracy, raw materials for economic growth
Can you imagine public websites providing citizens with the data on every outlay by every ministry, state office or agency, who authorized what payment, when staff salaries were paid and what they amounted to, or how official credit cards are charged? Can Croatia look up to Great Britain as an often-cited exemplary of data openness…
Parliament adopts amendments to election law
The majority in parliament on Friday adopted an amended law on the election of MPs that introduces preferential voting at parliamentary elections too. The opposition did not vote on the bill and walked out of parliament because the sponsor, the ruling Social Democratic Party, at the last moment, when voting had already commenced, changed its…