A country’s national budget is one of the most tangible expressions of how a government aims to govern. It ostensibly sets the political, economic and development agenda for the whole nation. In practice,…

In cooperation with the UNDP in Serbia, the CEF organized a study visit for a group of members and staff of the Serbian National Assembly to Slovenia on November 11-14, 2013. The visit focused on parliamentary…

On October 29, 2013 the German embassy in Slovenia and the CEF signed the second grant agreement for funding the Training of Internal Auditors in the Public Sector (TIAPS) in Montenegro.

On October 28-29, 2013, the 2nd Annual Forum of the European Union Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) took place in Bucharest. Last year's annual forum took place in Regensburg (Bavaria, Germany),…

The Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF) and the German embassy in Slovenia will sign the second grant agreement on October 29, 2013 for funding the Training of Internal Auditors in the Public Sector…

Heads of tax administrations from South East European (SEE) countries and their deputies will meet together with the donor agencies that are supporting modernization efforts across the SEE region on December…

With the help of experts from the IMF, Dutch ministries, and the London School of Economics, the CEF held in October 2013 a workshop on capital budgeting for officials engaged in capital planning, capital…

At the recent roundtable on insurance fraud detection and prevention, the Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF) and the Insurance Supervision Agency of Slovenia (ISA) hosted more than 40 high-level officials…

The CEF recently hosted the launch of a new book on fiscal rules (“Fiskalna pravila”, in Slovene) written by Helena Kamnar, Advisor to the President of the Republic of Slovenia on Economic and Social Issues,…

Political agreement on the new 2014–20 multiannual financial framework of the EU was reached on June 27, 2013. In cooperation with experts Mojmir Mrak, Professor at Faculty of Economics, Ljubljana, Emil…