Public administration

BELGRADE - Serbia's Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Ana Brnabic said Tuesday her ministry's priorities would be to introduce e-government services, and added that tenders were already under way.

Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Ana Brnabic has said that her ministry's priorities would be to introduce e-government services.

Tenders are already under way, she added, Tanjug is reporting.

48 New Democracy deputies have submitted a question in parliament accusing the Greek government of creating the conditions for establishing a partisan army of employees in public administration by abusing provisions in the law that allow for the temporary hiring of public servants.

Civil servants will be allowed to return to and work in their place of origin as part of the government's voluntary mobility scheme devised to enable the voluntary transfer of public sector workers to departments suffering from staff shortages.

Vulnerable energy consumers amount to 30 percent - or nearly a third - of the Bulgarian population, the country's Energy Minister has said.

Attending a workgroup in Brussels dedicated to energy poverty, Temenuzhka Petkova has explained changes will be brought to the model determining which consumers are vulnerable.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s call for local ?muhtars? across Turkey to collect intelligence on people in their area as part of the struggle against terrorism has infuriated the Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP), which accused the president of taking yet another step aimed at creating polarization between citizens.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and World Bank Executive Director Joerg Frieden conferred on Tuesday about the WB's support to the process of privatization.

This concerns public enterprises listed in the Privatization Agency's portfolio.

Ivan Ivanov, Chair of Bulgaria's Commission for Energy and Water Regulation, has underscored that EU law entitles large industrial enterprises to discounts on the "obligation to society" surcharge included in electricity prices.

Officials at the Administrative Reform Ministry are finalizing a new evaluation scheme for civil servants aimed at improving performance and offering incentives to slackers rather than punishing them, Kathimerini understands.

President Klaus Iohannis signed on Wednesday the decree appointing Sevil Shhaideh to the position of Minister of Regional Development and Public Administration, with the incoming official due to take the oath of investiture at 17:00 hrs at the Cotroceni Palace, official sources told AGERPRES.

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