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EU Whistleblowing Directive and amendments to domestic legislation
Goran Lefkov In 2019 the European Union adopted a new directive on whistleblowing and whistleblowers’ protection. That directive prescribes special conditions for whistleblowers’ protection in various areas of daily life. An interesting point in this session was that more than half of the speakers in this session were people who have been through whistleblowing as a process. Some of them before the adoption of the whistleblower law in 2015,...
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National Whistleblower Day 2022
Goran Lefkov Center for Investigative Journalism SCOOP Macedonia and the Youth Educational Forum jointly organized the Whistleblower Day on May 12 and 13 this year. The first day a conference was held on whistleblowing and challenges for the future, while the second day the youth organized motivational speeches on whistleblowers. The conference was opened by the EU Ambassador to North Macedonia David Gere, starting with a joke on his...
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Whistleblowing – a new step in the Macedonian struggle for a better future
Goran Lefkov Whistleblowing as a phenomenon gives a strong impetus to the fight against corruption and contributes to better democratic governance. There were forms of whistleblowing in our country in the past as well. The difference between then and now is that today whistleblowing is regulated by law. The most famous case of whistleblowing is the case of Gjorgji Lazarevski and Zvonko Kostovski. They are the people who had...
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20 million euros in the digital agenda for training of administrators
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Children with face masks at school, adults without face masks in cafes
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Albania hasn’t had a significant case received from a whistleblower yet
Author: Goran Lefkov Whistleblowing in Albania as a powerful tool in the fight against corruption has not borne fruit yet. The state adopted a Law on Protection of Whistleblowers relatively early in 2016, but for 6 years now there has been no significant case from which other countries in the region can learn, such as the case of Murat Mehmeti in Kosovo and the Lazarevski-Kostovski case in North Macedonia....
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Gjorgji Lazarevski and Zvonko Kostovski’s heroic deed
Today Gjorgji Lazarevski and Zvonko Kostovski are safe and can sleep peacefully with the thought that the public is familiar with the weight of what they have heard and what they have known another very important thing is that thousands of employed citizens have legal protection if they decide to share the injustices they see and witness. Author: Goran Lefkov Center for Investigative Journalism SCOOP Macedonia is going to...
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The feat of Murat Mehmeti, the most famous whistleblower from Kosovo
Author: Goran Lefkov The disappearance of 25 million euros from the scope of the Kosovo Tax Administration in 2012 was a nightmare for the middle-aged Murat Mehmeti from Mitrovica. Responsible for investigating tax fraud in the Kosovo Tax Administration, he was constantly haunted by the thought that the future of his country, the future of his children and grandchildren, had been robbed by an organized crime group for financial...
