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Media coverage not unbiased, international and local media monitors say

16.04.2014 Transparency International Macedonia (TIM), an independent, non-profit organization that promotes the values of freedom and democracy, has been systematically monitoring the media coverage of the April presidential and early parliamentary elections. This monitoring is a part of the project that has been conducted in cooperation with a UK-based Electoral Reform International Services (ERIS) and a Slovak media-monitoring organization MEMO 98, funded by the European Union, under the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights.

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Corruption Perceptions Index 2013

03.12.2013 “Corruption remains an issue of high priority for the Republic of Macedonia. The result of this year on Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 is almost identical with the result of last year (43: 44 index points) and suggests that there is a slowdown in the improvement of the situation in this sphere.

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“They don’t even want to have the discussion” Governments battle over openness at UN AC meeting

29.11.2013 As a UN anti-corruption summit comes to a close today, governments are battling over whether UN anti-corruption meetings should be open to NGO observers. “This was an occasion for all those opposing corruption to come together and consolidate, but a small group of determined countries are still keeping NGO observers out of important discussions. This weakens the international community’s global anti-corruption efforts, because NGO expertise is missing.” said Vincent Lazatin of the UNCAC Coalition.

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“Skopje 2014”: At least eight million Euros could have been saved

29.11.2013 The procedures for making monuments in the project “Skopje 2014” that were realized through the “Centar” municipality are conducted with serious violations of the Law on Public Procurement, and eight million euros could have been saved only from monuments, if the most reasonable offers were chosen.

These are some of the conclusions of the second audit report for the project “Skopje 2014” that the municipality has ordered from the anticorruption experts Sladjana Taseva and Dragan Malinovski.

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End impunity for corruption, says global NGO network at UN summit

26.11.2013 As 1,500 government delegates from around the world, including 35 ministers, gather in Panama City for the opening of the biennial conference for the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), hundreds of anticorruption NGOs are calling on them to step up their anti-graft efforts and end impunity. The meeting marks the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the UNCAC, which covers all aspects of corruption prevention and criminal enforcement.

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Strengthening UN Convention Implementation Reviews

25.11.2013 Over 1000 government officials will gather today at a United Nations summit in Panama on the tenth anniversary of adoption of the UN Convention against Corruption. Transparency International is calling on the summit to strengthen the review process that checks country compliance with the convention. The UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) is the foremost instrument for overcoming global corruption, ratified by 168 countries to date, an impressive achievement. A new report from Transparency International shows the most effective way to assure continued country commitment and momentum is for action to improve country reviews and their follow-up of the recommendations coming out of it.

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State Audit Office with a negative opinion for the financial statements of the Ministry of Health

06.11.2013  the final report of the audit office about the financial statements, the auditors noted that the Ministry has not been fully implementing the inventory of assets, receivables and payables, and that there is no harmonization of accounting with the actual condition of the assets, and liabilities of the inventory is formally implemented by taking the data from accounts.

“Due to wrongly implemented accounting principles and guidelines regarding the implementation of accounting transactions and inadequate communications and flow of information and documents between departments, the balance sheet items are wrong, and there are unfounded higher amounts that affects the real and fair presentation of financial statements “, says the report by the State Audit Office.

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“Skopje 2014” under prosecutors scrutiny

20.08.2013 Fingers are pointed at the municipality Centar and the Ministry of Culture, which, according to Zernovski, worked illegally.

The report on investments of the municipality Centar within the project “Skopje 2014” found that from 2007 to 2013, for the construction of the monuments and accompanying content, even 58 million Euros were transferred from the central budget account of the municipality Centar for which there is no legal justification.

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