24.07.2018 Civil society plays a central role in monitoring and evaluating the Western Balkans governments’ progress on tackling organized crime and corruption. The non-governmental sector remains isolated, however, as regional governments continue to be hesitant to cooperate. In the Western Balkans, corruption appears to be elite-driven and the business of organized crime is reportedly closely…
Joint statement from Transparency International Macedonia and Transparency International Hungary 20.11.2018 Following the issuing of an international warrant for the arrest of former Macedonian Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski, Transparency International and its chapters in Macedonia and Hungary, urge Hungarian officials to extradite Gruevski from Hungary, where he is currently seeking asylum in an attempt…
Public employees who exposed secret wiretapping under Prime Minister Gruevski deserve justice 22.11.2018 Gjorgji Lazarevski and Zvonko Kostovski, whose heroic disclosure of secret wiretapping led to the resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski in 2016, should be promptly reinstated to the public service positions they lost as retaliation, three NGOs demanded today. Transparency…
31.10.2018 The Appellate Court Skopje on 01.10.2018 adopted a Decision ТС Ж no. 1795/18 with which the Decision of the Primary Court Veles СТ.111/17 from 09.07.2018, IS ABOLISHED, and the case is returned to the first instance court for further action and decision-making. The Primary Court Veles with the appealed decision approved the proposed…
13.07.2018 Transparency International – Macedonia gained re-accreditation for the next three years and thus met all criteria to be a full member of the global anti-corruption coalition Transparency International. Transparency International – Macedonia will continue to strive to establish a system of good governance for effective prevention of the fight against corruption. Transparency International is…
25.04.2018 Transparency International – Macedonia is expressing concerns over non-transparency and other numerous irregularities that characterize the Bankruptcy procedure of Feni Industry AD Kavadarci and point to justifiable suspicion of corruptive behavior by the Bankruptcy Trustee and the Judge leading the Bankruptcy case, for which they have filed criminal charges, as well as to other…
12.03.2018 The Platform of civic organizations for fight against corruption (the Platform) requests the formation of a professional anti-corruption body that will initiate and implement the legal remit and policies for prevention of corruption in the Republic of Macedonia in an effective and independent manner and with high degree of integrity. The Platform calls on…
28.02.2018 The Minister of Defence, Radmila Shekerinska, met today with Metodi Zajkov, Secretary General of Transparency International for Macedonia, and Karolina MacLachlan, Research and Policy Manager – Conflict and Insecurity from the International Office of Transparency International. On the meeting the Ministry of Defence expressed its interest to be included in the Government Defence…
22.02.2018 The State Commission for the Prevention of Corruption will check the funding of DUI (The Democratic Union for Integration) after the non-governmental “Transparency International-Macedonia” announced suspicious donations to Ali Ahmeti’s party. According to the organization, “Macedonian Post”, “Airports of Macedonia” and “Macedonian Railways-Infrastructure” appear on the list of donors of DUI for the last…
28.12.2017 Transparency International Macedonia on December 28, 2017 held a press conference on the topic “Fight against Corruption in Macedonia in 2017”. At the press conference, Slagjana Taseva PhD, President of TI-M pointed out that “The fight against corruption in the Republic of Macedonia is not at the necessary level to enable the development of…
