Civil society organisations across the EU provide services, engage in communities, raise awareness, advocate on behalf of others and hold authorities to account. But they face threats, attacks, funding cuts and disproportionate restrictions. These are just some of the challenges human rights civil society organisations face in some parts of the EU, and the Coronavirus [...]
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 […]
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 [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in respecting the fundamental rights to health, education, employment and social protection across society. FRA’s Fundamental Rights Report 2021 plots the pandemic’s wide-ranging impact on rights and suggests how best to address increasing inequalities and threats to societal cohesion. “COVID-19 tested the resolve of fundamental rights protection systems across the [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a wave that no one could have predicted. At the forefront of the pandemic were small businesses, people who were self-employed and creating jobs. Although this was an unpredictable crisis, the lack of cooperation, planning and clear strategy led to even greater setbacks. The first reaction regarding the measures to be [...]
In order to identify the key issues within the public policies related to the integration of the Republic of North Macedonia in the EU and the democratization of the society, an advisory group has been established to prepare the third Deliberative poll. The advisory group consists of professors, a former judge at the European Court […]
Education is a key way in which society is upgraded and developed. Through quality education, the generations are educated about the rights, laws and protection of their own, but also the rights of others, which contributes to the introduction of the domestic culture and values, but also of the European culture and values. With the […]
The Stabilisation and Association Agreement between Macedonia and the European Union offers a number of opportunities that are not systematically explained to the country's businesses and industry, said Professor Silvana Mojsovska of the Institute of Economics at today's MK-EU SAA conference.: Twenty years and Onward", organized by the European Policy Institute. She added that the [...]
