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Since its launching in 2001, IPP defended the fundamental civic right of accessing public information aiming to support that the principle of transparency is institutionalized at every level of the public administration. IPPs initiatives varied in this area from periodic evaluations of the transparency’s practices within the public sector to advocacy campaigns aimed at unifying the judicial practices (over 100 public entities were brought to Court by IPP in the last years for denying the Institute’s right of accessing public information).
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Bucharest, April, 29, 2009 ■ Emergency Ordinance no. 37/2009 regarding the removal of directors of Ministries’ territorial services has entered to force and, once it has been adopted, Romania enters a new era, that of total subordination to the political parties. Money, experts and other resources allocated for stability and professionalization of civil service over the last 8 years, even before Romania joined EU, were a waist. It wouldn’t be the first time in Romania, as going back to the past is a common practice for some political forces, no matter the price paid by the whole Romanian society.
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Bucharest, April, 14, 2009 ■ The Institute for Public Policy (IPP) releases updated information to the public on how certain Romanian institutions / central and local public authorities do their utmost to obstruct free access to information of public interest, through practices ranging from simply ignoring the requests for information from the civil society to disregarding final Court decisions obliging them to release the requested information. We would like to bring to the public attention the risk of diminishing the public interest in such negative practices in Romania, because certain public institutions that already make no effort to treat citizens respectfully might turn the obstruction of access to information into a habit. More and more clearly, a category of politicians who defy the requests for information of public interest takes shape in Romania. They are not interested that they are brought to Court and, eventually, don’t even comply with the Court decision obliging them to communicate the public interest information. The conviction that they are electorally invincible makes the leaders of some public institutions treat with arrogance any structure of the civil society taking interest in the public activity. In this way, they send a negative message to civil servants, whose purpose has become to satisfy the vanity of the leaders rather than reply to the requests for information of public interest.
