Mr. Steffen Normann Hansen joined us at the CEF in the position of IMF Tax Administration Reform Advisor for South East Europe. The CEF therefore continues to host two IMF FAD advisors and their support…

The IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department published a Board Paper on Budget Institutions in G-20 Countries. In this context budget institutions are defined as the structures, rules, and procedures that govern…

We attended the recent Plenary meeting of the Risk Management Platform which was established in 2007 under the Fiscalis Programme, with the purpose of providing a permanent communication and information…

The Steering Group of the Priority Area 10 dealing with institutional capacity and cooperation in the Danube region met for the 6th time in Ljubljana on May 9, 2014. Representatives from 10 Danube countries…

Many budget decisions have impacts that extend well beyond the current budget year. To make rational budgetary decisions, decision-makers must focus on the medium- and long-term implications. While the…

Challenges of significant staff fluctuations in the public sector reinforce the need for capacity development, such as provided at the Strategic Planning and Budgeting (SPB) project.

More than 40 high-level representatives of ministries of agriculture, insurance supervisory authorities and insurance industries of Western Balkan countries and Turkey discussed on April 10, 2014 the present…

Since Janaury 2011, we have been working closely with the International Monetary Fund's (IMF)Tax Administration Reform Advisor Mr. Norman Gillanders to help the South East European (SEE) countries’ tax…

The implementation of the EU-funded Strategic Planning and Budgeting (SPB) project follows the envisaged course. In the first year, the CEF successfully initiated the project and delivered seven training…

As members of the learn4dev Core Group, we on March 27-28, 2014 hosted our colleagues from the Agence Française de Développement (French Agency for Development - AFD), the European Commission, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). Participants agreed that the meeting was very constructive and it resulted in important progress regarding open questions about the network.