Filenews 13 October 2025
It's time for the civil servant to look in the mirror. The new Guide to the Conduct and Ethics of Civil Servants, approved by the Council of Ministers, is not another "paper for the archive" to sit on a dusty shelf, but perhaps it should be a warning that the era of indifference and impunity is over or not.
The first conference for its presentation took place at the Ministry of Finance, with the participation of senior officials and managers. The state apparatus itself is now called upon to implement as many years as it has avoided, transparency, meritocracy, accountability.
The Guide, the product of cooperation between the Department of Public Administration and Personnel, the Office of the Commissioner for Administration and the Office of the Commissioner for Legislation, replaces its obsolete predecessor and introduces stricter rules of professional conduct.
The revision was deemed imperative because the public service cannot operate with the mentality of past decades, while everything around it is evolving, changing.
If the Guide is put into practice and not just posted on bulletin boards, perhaps the cartoon of the "lazy sullen civil servant" will finally become a thing of the past, along with the mentalities that accompany it.
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