{image1} The public is not informed enough about the process of European integration and the Government of Serbia hinders the access to relevant documents for civil society organizations, are the main conclusions of the discussion organized by Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) on 28 March 2017 at the Media Center in Belgrade. The six-month research of BCSP “Informing the Citizens in an Objective and Timely Manner on the ...

Diminished integrity of the Police is trampling on the relations with the media and is preventing proper informing of the public, this is the conclusion of the third panel from the Conference “Security Challenges as a Link between the Citizens and Institutions”, organized by the POINTPULSE on the 21 of December 2016, in the Mikser House. “Police integrity has weakened and this is clearly shown in the newest police integrity ...

This policy brief analyses the existing institutional and procedural landscape for exchange of operational information and police cooperation between Serbia and Kosovo, with a view to proposing a model for establishing more effective direct cooperation between the two police forces.

The subject of this publication is the integrity of the three most significant security sector institutions in Serbia: the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces of Serbia; the Ministry of the Interior and the police; and the Security Information Agency.

Strengthening the integrity in the security sector was the subject of expert consultations which gathered 28 representatives of the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Interior, Security-Information Agency, the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, the Ombudsman, the Commissioner for Information of Public importance and Personal Data Protection, Agency for fighting against corruption, the Public Procurement Office and the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, from 9 to 11 July at Fruska Gora.

Exchange of information and creation of optimal conditions for realistic reporting regarding the level of presence of corruption risks in the Ministry of Defence of Republic of Serbia were the main objectives of the meeting held on April 24 in 2014 at the Ministry of Defence.

It is necessary to change the Law on free access to information of public importance by tightening sanctions and increasing the powers of the Commissioner, and for better implementation of the law it must be organized trainings for employees responsible for access to information, it is concluded during the presentation of the publication „Free access to information of public importance - theory and practice".

The lecture in BCSP library gathered representatives from Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defence, Security Information Agency, OSCE Mission to Serbia, political parties and civil society.

Representatives of Serbia’s state institutions - ombudsman Saša Janković, Commissioner for Information of Public Importance Rodoljub Šabić, Ministry of Internal Affairs Bojana Panić, experts in the matter of biometric technologies - Ninoslav Janjić (WLS Electronic), Ratimir Drakulić of the Faculty of organisational sciences, Oliver Subotić of Serbian Orthodox Church - as well as civil society organisations’ (CSO) representatives, Dejan Milenković of YUCOM and Aleksandar Pavić of "Za život bez žiga" („For a life without a ...