Research
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Macedonian students with worst standards in the Balkans
Oct 15, 2015Macedonia is a country of pensioners, they receive free baths, free transport, larger pensions. Unlike students, who are to bear the burden of the Macedonian society, thrown on the margins and have the worst living in... -
Five bureaucrats whose salary is higher than the PM’s
Oct 13, 2015Members of the Public Procurement Council (Ivica Kostojchinoski, Zlatko Arsov, Zoran Trajanovski, Suad Zejnulovikj and Borce Hristov) have higher salaries even than the President of the country, the Head of the Assembly and the Prime Minister... -
Board members live luxuriously; companies do not have for salaries and new mechanization
Oct 9, 2015Winter 2015. An idyllic picture in Macedonia. Snow-covered land, impassable roads and many villages cut off. The public enterprise Makedonija Pat has no money for new machinery, but has money to give to the managing board... -
Board members and officials: receiving both salaries and honoraria
Sep 25, 2015DOCUMENTATION Nebojsa Stajkovic has been a non-executive member of the Board of Directors of “Macedonian Telecom” AD Skopje since April this year, after previously, since 2009, he had performed the same function in “T-Mobile” Macedonia... -
Problematic players in the casino business
Sep 7, 2015Owners of casinos in Macedonia are problematic. With imported hundreds of millions of Euros to the Macedonian border with Greece, casinos remind of gambling mecca, such as Macau, Estonia or Las Vegas. But what do heads... -
Macedonia becomes Balkan Las Vegas: low standards and too much gambling
Aug 8, 2015DOCUMENTS (Note: Documents for all companies are attached on links to their names. To view them click on link DOCUMENTS) Macedonia is at the bottom of the list of Balkan countries by foreign... -
Poor municipalities hinder development outside the capital
Aug 5, 2015Failing to comply with the Law on Balanced Regional Development and taking money from the concession of natural resources, the state economically exhausts the municipalities. These conditions revolt citizens from other towns. Stojan from Kocani is... -
Мunicipalities operate only for administration’s salaries, not for the citizens
Jul 13, 2015Instead of government closer to citizens, municipalities are increasingly becoming institutions operating only for administration’s salaries. The investigation by SCOOP Macedonia shows that the increase in the number of employees before each cycle of local elections has... -
Party employment for dysfunctional municipalities
Jun 3, 2015Municipality Rankovce is a leader by the number of employees in Macedonia. For 10 years this community has increased its staff by five times. In 2005 the municipality had 6 employees, while in 2014 their number... -
New witnesses to abuses in "Lepeza" disclosed, Norwegian Embassy is checking
May 13, 2015author: Stojanka Mitreska Soldier Ilija Todev from Veles who neither has a driving license, nor has ever taken the driving test in any driving school in the country, claims to have been on the list of...
