In Focus: CEF Empowers Practitioners in Performance Auditing

The CEF is kicking off this year's training program in accounting and auditing with a course on Performance Auditing. Delivered by renowned experts in the field, the workshop aims to help auditors from our region gain knowledge on key steps of the performance audit cycle. The workshop is designed to…

Linking Structural Reforms to Budget Processes: Focus of New CEF Book

The CEF has published Fiscal Impact Assessments of Structural Reforms: Case Studies on South East Europe. Covering nine countries, this new book presents an in-depth needs assessment on a key issue that has not been sufficiently addressed: how the costs of these reforms are integrated within countries’…

CEF at Annual Meeting of Contact Points and Coordinators of EU Strategy for the Danube Region

The EU Strategy for the Danube Region brings together its Priority Area Coordinators and National Contact Points once a year to discuss policy and implementation. At the recent meeting, participants focused on horizontal issues, such as financing challenges and the involvement of civil society in executing…

Roundtable Discussion on the Value of Motor Third Party Liability Insurance

The Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF) and the Insurance Supervision Agency of Slovenia (ISA) have invited high-level officials of ministries of finance, insurance supervisory authorities, and insurance companies in Western Balkan countries to share their views and experiences on the liberalization…

CEF Boosts Slovenian Experts’ Skills in Written Communication

The CEF kicked off 2013 with a learning event in written communication that was tailored to senior staff of the Slovene government who are tasked with the writing and editing of strategic documents. Attendees of the early January seminar included officials from the Bank of Slovenia, the Institute of…

CEF Joins Train4Dev’s Core Group

In a major international recognition of our training expertise, the CEF has been invited to join the Core Group of the Train4Dev network. We are the first institution from the newer EU member countries to join this group. The Core Group serves as a board for Train4Dev, a network of learning experts…

CEF’s Support to PEMPAL in 2012

In 2012, the CEF supported a wide range of activities for the Public Expenditure Management Peer Assisted Learning network. As secretariat for this multi-donor initiative since 2008, the CEF supports three communities of practice that focus on budget, internal audit, and treasury in 22 countries of…

In Focus: CEF Contributes to More Efficient Use of EU Funds

The CEF designs learning events on the European Union Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) to help our member countries keep pace with reform efforts and achieve better results. The IPA is an EU financial instrument to help candidate and potential candidate countries introduce the political,…

CEF Supports Danube Financial Dialogue

As part of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region, the CEF is helping facilitate the Danube Financial Dialogues, which match project ideas with funding. On January 24-25, 2013, the National Bank of Serbia will host the second dialogue, bringing together small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and financial…

IMF FAD Director Cottarelli Presented Fiscal Monitor Update at the CEF

The IMF Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD) Director Carlo Cottarelli presented today the Fiscal Monitor Update at the Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In his presentation Cottarelli discussed key lessons for South East Europe (SEE) arising from the current global fiscal crisis.…