More than 20 donor agencies and multilateral organizations will gather at the annual meeting of the learn4dev network. The CEF is organizing this year's annual meeting of the network together with Swiss…

On their study visit to Slovenia, a group of 30 young employees of the Dutch Ministry of Finance also visited the CEF.  The group just returned from Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the Dutch constituency…

The Ministry of Finance of Montenegro and the CEF are happy to announce that Training of Internal Auditors in Public Sector (TIAPS) in Montenegro is celebrating the successful completion of its first year.…

Mr. Dan Manolescu, State Secretary at the Romanian Ministry of Public Finance, signed the Agreement on Establishing the Center of Excellence in Finance as an international organization.  Romania is thus…

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.