TRANSPARENCY

Why is it important to manage the security sector transparently? How transparent are security sector actors? How can transparency be improved without that impacting on national security interests and public security?

BCSP Calls for Immediate End to Police Violence

The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) strongly urges the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Serbia to immediately cease the excessive and unlawful use of force against peaceful demonstrators. Security forces must treat all citizens equally, act in accordance with the law and strictly follow service regulations during any intervention.

By |2025-06-30T12:57:56+02:0030.06.2025.|Categories: Accountability, BSCP, Local Security, Police, Private Security, Security Services, Serbian Security Policy, State Capture, Transparency|Tags: |0 Comments
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Police Under Informal Control of Party Loyalists

The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) expresses deep concern over serious irregularities, abuses, and selective actions by members of the Ministry of Interior during the local elections held on June 8, 2025, in Zaječar and Kosjerić. We call for an immediate, independent investigation into all reported incidents. These events are part of a broader security context in which the police are increasingly failing to fulfill their primary role—protecting citizens and upholding the rule of law.

By |2025-06-09T14:04:27+02:0009.06.2025.|Categories: Accountability, BSCP, Local Security, Police, Private Security, Security Services, Serbian Security Policy, State Capture, Transparency|Tags: |0 Comments
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Public enterprises and public administration– outlawed management and citizens’ attempts to curtail it

How citizens can point out irregularities in the work of public enterprises and public utility companies, which operate in a very non-transparent manner in Serbia, read in the case study written by the Program Director of Transparency Serbia, Nemanja Nenadić.

By |2023-03-30T13:45:08+02:0028.07.2022.|Tags: , , , , |Comments Off on Public enterprises and public administration– outlawed management and citizens’ attempts to curtail it
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Greater transparency on defense issues for more trust in the region

Defense topics are most often sensationalized, leading to militaristic narratives in the region. For the sake of greater trust in the region, it is necessary to discuss these topics based on facts. This was highlighted during a discussion held on Monday, March 14, where the Balkan Defense Monitor, a pioneering comparative report on defense systems in the Western Balkans, was presented.

By |2022-03-18T11:36:19+01:0018.03.2022.|Categories: Military, Regional Security Cooperation, Transparency|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments
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The abolishment of the decree that prevents research in the field of defence is the ‘Kodak moment’ of the state of democracy in Serbia

A group of civil society organisations and experts hereby points out that the way laws and by-laws are passed, amended and abolished shows a true picture of the catastrophic state of democracy in Serbia. The content, enactment and urgent abolishment of the decree stipulating that scientific and other research of importance for the country's defense, conducted in cooperation with foreign entities, will require the approval of competent authorities, violates all principles of democracy, rule of law and freedom of expression.

By |2021-12-17T12:50:51+01:0014.12.2021.|Categories: Serbian Security Policy, State Capture, Transparency|0 Comments
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Right to free access to information of public importance

How is the right to free access to information of public importance legally regulated, what are the problems in the implementation and what awaits us in the future when it comes to this area, read in the article of the lawyer and member of the Civil Committee for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Whistleblowers Rodoljub Sabic.

By |2023-03-30T16:34:59+02:0019.05.2021.|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Right to free access to information of public importance
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Societal dialogue on the state of democracy in Serbia needs to be launched

On the occasion of the release of the recent Freedom House “Nations in Transit” report in which Serbia found itself in the category of a “hybrid regime” instead of a democratic country for the first time in 17 years, we express serious concern for the state of democratic institutions in Serbia. We call on the Government of the Republic Serbia to take these assessments seriously and work hard towards ensuring the conditions for the improvement of democracy and media freedom in the country, and call on the European Union and its Member States to adequately recognise these issues as crucial in the process of European integration.

By |2020-05-19T18:23:21+02:0019.05.2020.|Categories: Activism, Serbian Security Policy, Transparency|Tags: , , , |0 Comments
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The state institutions should fight against the coronavirus, not the freedom of media

We draw the attention of the domestic and international public to the unacceptable recent moves by the state authorities in Serbia during the state of emergency introduced due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which undermine democracy, rule of law, basic human rights and especially freedom of media.

By |2020-04-02T19:03:26+02:0002.04.2020.|Categories: Serbian Security Policy, Transparency|Tags: , |0 Comments
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Working Group for the Political Criteria Within NCEU Established

Monitoring the state of democracy and freedom of expression and the media in Serbia will be in the focus of a new Cross-Sectoral Working Group of the National Convention on the European Union (NCEU) for political criteria, which was established on January 24, 2020 in Belgrade.

By |2020-01-24T08:40:25+01:0024.01.2020.|Categories: Accountability, Activism, Serbian Security Policy, Transparency|Tags: , , |0 Comments
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