Kori Udovički appeared on the show Marker on TV Insajder on Thursday, January 20, 2022, and as a studio guest, she commented on the necessity of public administration reform, the price we pay for not insisting on it, and why reform has been insisted upon verbally for twenty years, yet in practice, we have the same situation. We share some quotes from her appearance with you, and the entire recording of the appearance can be found at the link.
The fact is that public administration, i.e., civil servants, ministries, but also public enterprises, have not been reformed, i.e., professionalized. With public enterprises, the additional problem is that it is no longer only required that someone be easily replaceable, but also obedience. When you demand obedience, you cannot even get a professional with a party affiliation. And because of this obedience, EPS was managed in the way it was, to quickly deliver some requested results without considering what those results do for the company.
Warnings from the World Bank and the IMF about the reform of public enterprises are not enough, while political will is the main problem.
You can watch the entire appearance at the following link.
