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Unlawful Removal of Senior Civil Servants: Legal Uncertainty and the Undermining of Merit-Based Public Administration
In the period between July 2025 and August 2026, Serbia's Government practiced dismissal of senior civil servants (SCS) without any legal grounds, in breach of the Civil Servants Law (CSL). The CSL lists a closed set of grounds for dismissal and requires merit-based, fixed-term appointments. In the analysed period, however, the Government dismissed at least five SCS without citing any ground. Such removals strip SCS of the stability that shields them from political [...]
Unlawful Removal of Senior Civil Servants: Legal Uncertainty and the Undermining of Merit-Based Public Administration
In the period between July 2025 and August 2026, Serbia's Government practiced dismissal of senior civil servants (SCS) without any legal grounds, in breach of the Civil Servants Law (CSL). The CSL lists [...]
After the Surname Changes: From Scattered Procedures to a Unified Life-Event Service
Life events are the moments when citizens face the most frequent and complex interactions with the administration. This is why the OECD Recommendation on Human-Centred Public Administrative Services (2024) and the SIGMA Principles [...]
Group for Legal and Political Studies (GLPS) held second Media Brunch
On 30 October 2026, the Group for Legal and Political Studies (GLPS) organised a media brunch at Soma Book Station in Prishtina, bringing together representatives from KatroR Media, ATV, A2 CNN, RTK, and BIRN/Prishtina [...]
