Source: : Blic
Commentaries
Rodoljub Sabic, Information commissioner
Recently it has been established among other things, at a significant gathering of business people and financial experts, that Serbia is potentially a record breaking country in the matter of public spending and that it is of utmost importance to take measures to change this trend and to prevent, in reversed case inevitable extremely damaging effects. Evaluation, obviously accurate, almost "not interesting". This is why this event, taking place in Vranje was interesting for me, more to the fact that at the same time, I received a complaint against municipal authorities for denying the public insight into act on employees systematization in the local government, saying that above mentioned is “an official secret”. As many similar, this complaint reminds that “inflated” public spending is no abstract notion shown only in the budget percents and GDP, but that it expresses itself concretely in unnecessary activities, overload of employees, immoderate, unjustified expenditures, etc. Is it morally justified that data on the number of employees, public procurements, expense account and gifts is deemed a “secret” for the public, who, bottom line finance all this? And is it, from a rational point of view, licit to ignore the experience of others telling us that cutting down on high public spending, among other things understands full insight of financial dealing of the authority.
