Governance

Undermining institutions

The practice of incorporating unrelated amendments into proposed legislation tabled in Parliament, particularly when it involves last-minute adjustments that serve obvious political self-interest, like those reducing the powers of local government, represents a continual erosion of the quality of parliamentary governance. 

A steady compass

Events rarely do political planning any favors. They have a way of blindsiding decision-makers and overturning even the best-laid plans. Before taking office again, the government's top officials had emerged from a long period of successive crises and two election campaigns. Then the wildfires came. 

Pierrakakis: More than 99% of public sector services will be digital in four years

More than 99 pct of the services provided by the public sector will be digital in the next four years, Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis said on Friday.

He said all the projects required to achieve this have been initiated, put up for tender and are financed by the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), "so they can essentially be ready in 2027."

US Push for Decentralisation May not Solve Bosnia’s Problems

In his current statements to the regional media, Serwer has presented some possible measures supposedly intended to reform the Dayton arrangement. His argumentation is based primarily on a call for more centralisation that would limit the powers of Bosnia's ethnically defined entities and cantons.

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