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Lawmakers and pundits are scrutinizing the anti-graft unit’s close ties to the country’s main spy agency.
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In this paper, we argue that the social relations at individual level between persons who directly work in strategic alliances represent a key factor for the implementation’s success. In this sense, we provide an integrative framework for the Relational Governance Mechanism (RGM) building in strategic alliances. Based on a grounded theory approach, inductively developed in five vertical strategic alliances, we observed that the trust, the reciprocal commitment and the communication attributes are well developed and common in all the cases. But what made the difference between the most successful partnerships (described in terms of satisfaction with the alliance and the accomplishment of alliance’s goals) and the medium ones was the integrative conflict management and the win-win approach on a long-term. Specifically, the creation of a dyadic culture toward building a common future.
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The Romanian media has to constantly defend its freedom in the face of never-ending threats of encroachment from the ruling class.
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Minsk mulls restrictions on drink sales and raising the drinking age to curb the drastic effects of high alcohol consumption.
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For the second time in less than a year, Social Democrat top brass push a prime minister out of office.
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Reporter banned for avoiding military service had earlier run-ins with assembly speaker.
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The move could bring locals one step closer to visa-free traveling within the Schengen zone.
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The article deals problems of providing economic and legal implementation of the investment policy, rationale and development of the system initial concepts related to providing economic and legal implementation of the investment policy: the investment market, investment policy, legal investment policy, legislative investment policy, the formation mechanism of legal government investment policy, investment legal order.
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Good governance is in practice very difficult to implement public sector reform strategy, because it covers all spheres of public administration and improves the efficiency of the government operation. At the moment, even organizations that have begun the discussion concerning good governance are accused of failing the standards created in this area. The problems concern primarily a misunderstanding of basic good governance principles, as well as political actions taken by the government.
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This article discusses some of the opportunities and challenges that the Estonian Council presidency is facing during its first term in 2017. We also explore how Estonia is likely to approach this position. The Council presidency provides a position to propagate national interests and an opportunity for leadership within the Council but can also be perceived as a silencer of the domestic narrative. We claim that the Estonian presidency is expected to silence its interests in most policy areas in order to portray Estonia as a pro-European mediator. Through qualitative text analysis of key documents, interviews with Estonian, Danish, Finnish, and Latvian officials and comparative reflections of these states’ presidencies, we find that Estonia is likely to exercise a problem-solving leadership during its term and that the main challenge and opportunity will be the further Europeanisation of its public administration.
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While predictable, Fidesz’s massive victory in Hungary still inspires awe about the trajectory of once one of the EU’s most promising new member states.
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The process of financial consolidation in any way can be one of the pains taking processes to potential or existing crisis in the market, which is usually according with insolvency. Namely, on the one hand, it is a financial consolidation of companies at the entity level that inevitably reflected to the country, while on the other hand, this process had to appear as a necessary consequence of all previous financial consolidation at the global level.Thus, guided by the experience of the current economy and the impact of the process of fiscal consolidation in some countries we will detail and analytical showgrounds for his part "positive" application in one of the entities FBiH, more precisely in the area of Tuzla Canton (TK). The author of this work is of the opinion that all financial consolidation processes in general, and at the state level but also successively contribute, if anything, the fusion of the financial statements and the improvement of financial conditions that ultimately result in particular successfully implemented procedures, which step by step in a certain percentage part, can contribute to development.
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Fourth memorandum of the Slavic union International about the status of Lusatian Serbs in Germany not as a national minority but as an independent nation. Četvrto proglašenje Slovjanskoj unie International za status Lužičskyh Srbov ne kako nacijonalna menšina ale kako samostojny narod.
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The article concentrates on the issue of establishing and activities of the Sejm (Polish parliament) State Control Committee which has special character and as for the principle is to fulfill the role of the main centre to effectuate one of the most fundamental functions of the Sejm, namely the control function. There is the detailed description of the origin of this committee with regard to the political context of this decision and arguments for and against establishing this committee during the parliamentary debate concerning foundation of this body. There is formal-legal analysis of the competencies and the range of activities of this committee and also established in the course of practice direction of its functioning. The analysis of almost ten-year history of its practical activity has provided the image of practical possibilities to fulfill its control function as well as its weaknesses. The conducted research with legal and comparative analysis of similar parliamentary committees in other countries led to the conclusion that the State Control Committee hasn’t managed to work out the optimal range of its operation so its identity and ultimate competencies are still being searched. There is no doubt, however, that it plays auxiliary role in the execution of the Sejm’s control function and in the age of specialization of legislative bodies through the multiplication of specialist committees the committee certainly has its permanent standing in Polish Sejm.
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My purpose is to explain why it is so frequent that policy makers both public and private fail in their efforts to solve problems. The main question is why educated and experienced persons cannot achieve their goals by reasonable decisions and actions. Among many causes and reasons (spontaneous changes of postmodern societies, limits to rationality of decision makers), If shall focus on two types of problems – wicked problems and Gordian Knots. The very characteristics of these types of problems are conducive to Tsunami Effect, to complete incapability of designing strategies which are efficient enough. Gordian knot is defined here as a wicked problem having some specific features and causes. Notions of Tsunami Effect and Gordian Knot are regarded as an innovative contribution to the general theory of strategy and the theory of decision making.
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This research paper concerns the issue of a role of Local Government Appeal Quasi-Courts in fulfilling the challenges arising before the current public administration. It highlights that the appeal courts perfectly fit into the process of decentralization of public authorities, ensuring that the party to the proceedings is guaranteed the professional adjudication of its case. The activity of the Local Government Appeal Quasi-Courts has an effect on creating of positive image of the public administration in the society and is distinguished compared to other public authorities adjudicating in individual cases in the field of public administration. The appeal courts are a part of the public administration structure, which evolves constantly and furthermore, it constantly amends its activities to fit the current reality, in order to fulfill the needs of local community. There are currently many challenges facing the public administration. Such challenges are, in particular, related to: necessity of fulfilling new and often very complicated tasks; the increase of the society’s legal self-awareness and consequently its greater expectations; the tendency towards even greater openness and transparency of public activities; the need for the society to maintain on-going control over the actions of public administration and to influence such actions; the progress of information technology and its common influence over all areas of life, also including the public life. There is an emphasis on necessity of social participation, especially in the local government. The public administration must conduct all possible actions in order to rise to such challenges, subject to being bound by the principle of the rule of law. Without a doubt, the Local Government Appeal Quasi-Courts are able to rise to the challenges arising currently before the public administration, moreover they should be theprecursor of incoming changes.
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The main factors stimulating the Welsh people behaviour during the British membership in the European Union referendum in 2016, i.e. voting for leaving the EU structures by the United Kingdom are set out in this article. Based on the assumption that possibilities of social, economic and political development in the frames of the European Union would be unavailable for the whole of the UK after Brexit implementation, an author draws vision of immediate future of Wales, as peripheral region with small demographic and economic potential, strongly dependent on decisions of decisive head centre in London.
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Pitanje demokratije ovdje posmatramo u trouglu između građana kao privatnih osoba, vlade koju oni biraju i korporacija, kao privatnih entiteta, koje slije¬dom svojih interesa uspostavljaju dominaciju u sferi za koju smo navikli tokom 20. stoljeća da je javna, da predstavlja opći interes i javno dobro. Raspon značenja je toliki da vodi do tačke u kojoj demokratija može značiti sve i ništa. Stoga, do danas je otvoreno pitanje šta je demokratija? Jasno je da znači vladavinu (kratos), ali je nepoznato ko je narod koji vlada: da li narod (demos) znači većinu, da li je princip većine apsolutan ili relativan, ili je narod proletarijat, ili narod znači organsku i nedjeljivu cjelinu itd. Zato, još jednom ćemo naglasiti da je demokratija, u svome čistom, normativnom obliku ideal, a ono što se u praksi zove demokratskim poretkom više je borba između vladavine naroda i vladavine nad narodom.
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The purpose of this article is the identification of main problems of current European debate on EU institutional reform, the extraction of basic elements of Polish concept of “intergov-ernmental democracy” as well as the critical analysis of two operationalized components of this concept. The main thought is based on the view that the current European debate on EU reform is not reflected in the “intergovernmental democracy” concept based on misperception and ideological approach. Theoretical background of the article is intergovernmentalism that evaluates integration processes from the perspective of member state. Requests of the state as abstractly understood should be reflected in the construction of EU institutional system, while the precondition of the existence of the appropriate system is state’s carrying out activities adapted to political reality.
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The aim of the study is to present some of the problematic aspects of the administrative reform in the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Bulgaria carried out in 2017. The new legislative provisions transformed the official legal relations of the employees from the administrative structures of the Ministry of Interior, in official legal relations under the Law on civil servants and in labor relations under the Labor Code. The reform triggered their dissatisfaction. At their request, the Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria lodged a request to the Constitutional Court to declare the provisions of the Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Ministry of Interior unconstitutional. The study aims to support the opinion that the Ombudsman's request is unfounded and should be rejected by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Bulgaria.
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