We were pleased to talk to colleagues at the Public Revenue Office (PRO) from North Macedonia to learn about their institutional learning needs and explore opportunities to jointly advance our cooperation. We are happy to share some of their thoughts about the benefits learning with us brings to the PRO staff.

Since 2008, Paul McClure has been regularly lecturing at the CEF workshops on communication topics. He has helped many public officials upgrade the effectiveness of their written communications in English, working with course participants from all CEF member countries and several adjoining EU member states. We…

We were happy to talk to Ms. Irnesa Hašimbegović from the Tax Administration of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ms. Hašimbegović shared her personal learning takeaways from our recent hybrid event that explored how to plan and conduct tax audits by using indirect audit methods.

Noel Hepworth is the former Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA). Since retiring, he has been supporting reform processes and advising on the development of financial management and control (FMC) in many countries across South East Europe (SEE). After realizing that…

Davor Kozina, Head of Service for Coordination of Internal Control System Development at the Croatian Ministry of finance, shares his impressions and main learning takeaways from the recent workshop that looked into the practical implementation of risk management in the public sector.

As the project "Strengthening Line Ministries’ Capacities to Assess Fiscal Implications of Structural Reforms (FISR)" successfully came to an end, we are happy to share joint reflections by Vasyl Zubaka from the European Commission and Natasha Ilijeva Acevska from the CEF on the FISR project milestones.

Macroeconomic models are an essential part of a policymaker’s toolkit. The online course on Macroeconomic Modeling for Open Economies 2 allowed participants to learn how to enhance the integration of financial frictions and non-linear effects in DSGE models as well as how to assess the effects of unconventional…

We are honored to have been partnering with the European Central Bank (ECB) for a number of years to jointly advance our Learning and Knowledge Sharing Program for Central Banks and Financial Supervisory Authorities in South East Europe (SEE). We were happy to talk to Ms. Katrin Arnold, Head of the International…

Sasha Sashek Gosheva, Director of Sector for Financial Affairs at the Customs Administration, shares her experience as a Junior Tutor of the Public Acoountants Certification Training (PACT) program in North Macedonia, highlighting the benefits and effects on her further work.

The Ministry of Finance of the Netherlands has been one of the CEF’s most important partners since our early days. Today, the ministry still contributes to the CEF by providing expertise and participation grants for our learning and networking program in the areas of tax policy and administration and auditing.…