MACEDONIA’S PUBLIC SECRET: How Corruption drags the Country down. (ICG Balkans Report N°133)
MACEDONIA’S PUBLIC SECRET: How Corruption drags the Country down. (ICG Balkans Report N°133)

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Civil Society, Governance, Corruption - Transparency - Anti-Corruption
Published by: ICG International Crisis Group
Summary/Abstract: Although this report contains specific examples, it has been written with care to respect the rights of individuals. ICG is prepared, however, to discuss a number of these matters in greater detail if requested to do so by appropriate, duly authorised governmental and legislative bodies. Also, while this report deals with the present and recent past and so may seem to concentrate on the parties now in power, corruption is an aspect of the country’s political culture, not the exclusive preserve of any particular group. For an attack on it to be effective, all political parties need to join in the effort, along with civil society and the international donor community. Corruption is emphatically not an issue that belongs to or should be misused for partisan political purposes, and it would be a major mistake to believe that a change of government after the September 2002 elections will automatically sweep away the problem.

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