‘News’

The European Policy Institute and the Academy for judges and public prosecutors “Pavel Shatev” are organizing training for trainers for mediation in order for Macedonian mediation trainers, current and future, to be trained with modern methods and skills in the field.   At the opening of the training, the Director of the Academy for judges […]

Although the adoption of negotiation framework by the Council of EU and holding the first intergovernmental conference with North Macedonia is an important step and positive impulse for the Government and the state institutions, the country must have a clear vision and strategy, regardless of European institutions’ decisions, continuous cooperation and coordination between institutions at […]

The private sector, as well as the public administration, are not sufficiently familiar with the benefits of mediation, according to a survey conducted by the European Policy Institute (EPI). The key findings from the research conducted with representatives from the public administration and the private sector were presented at today’s event “With mediation to better [...]

Even though in the Strategy for Reform of the Judicial Sector, as well as in other documents, it is pointed out that the number of judges is higher than the European average, if measured by the number of population, still our judges, statistically, have more cases to resolve. Any reduction in their number will have […]

The digitalization of the judiciary and the public prosecutor's office saves time in the implementation of proceedings, facilitates the electronic movement of documents through courts, prosecutors' offices and other institutions that carry out criminal prosecution and will improve the overall connection of these institutions. Digitalization will prevent the abuse of the rights of the participants [...]

Five organizations from the country have become grantees of the WeBER 2.0 project and will work on monitoring the public administration reform at the local level. The organizations will work on projects for digitalization and professionalization of the administration in municipalities, improvement of human resources in the local self-government, as well as the encouragement of [...]

The key findings from the second National PAR Monitor for 2019/2020 were presented for the National Working Group for public administration reform in North Macedonia. Our researchers, Julijana Karai and Angel Mojsovski presented the results of the report to the representatives from the organizations in the NWG. The full report will be published in the [...]

The European Policy Institute (EPI) presented the Fundamental Rights Report published by the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) this month. As part of FRANET, EPI is preparing the contribution on North Macedonia to this report the second year in a row. In addition to presenting findings, the panellists also discussed the main thematic focus of this [...]