One of the major products of the WeBER Project, Regional PAR Monitor 2017/2018, was presented in Brussels to the representatives of the Directorate-General for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR) of the European Commission, and to the participants of event organised by the European Policy Centre – EPC.

The conference “Citizens First: Civil Society Demands for Better Administration in the Western Balkans” brought together more than 60 speakers and over 130 participants from the Western Balkan region and the EU.

After Montenegro published the conclusions of the Public Administration (PAR) Special Group (SG) meeting in October 2017, becoming the first Western Balkan (WB) country to do so, Serbia decides to follow just a year later.

This report analyses and compares the practices of the Western Balkan administrations – and distinguishes good practices from those that hinder the development of a more professional Senior Civil Service – to demonstrate to decision makers that a merit-based Senior Civil Service is useful.

7 June 2018 – The Third Meeting of the National Working Group on Public Administration Reform in Macedonia was attended by representatives of the WeBER Platform as well as a representative from the MISA.

WeBER research team attended the Fourth WeBER Researchers' Workshop on 29th and 30th May 2018 in Budva, Montenegro.

It is our pleasure to inform you that the European Commission’s Mid-term Evaluation of the Civil Society Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey has recognised Project WeBER as one of the examples of long-haul efforts to bring in structural changes in an institutional environment.