North Macedonia has done nothing to fulfill the EU Directive. Even if it did update its whistleblower law to comply with the Directive, this would make no difference if the Commission is not competent or honest about its work. A good law cannot compensate for poor work on whistleblower cases. Goran Lefkov Mark Worth is Executive Director of Whistleblowing International in The Hague and the European Center for Whistleblower...

Experienced investigative journalist, Goran Lefkov, is elected for the new president of the Center for Investigative Journalism SCOOP Macedonia. This decision was unanimously adopted within the regular election assembly of the organization, where, among other things, changes were made in the other management structures. Lefkov is the third president of SCOOP Macedonia, an organization that since its foundation was led by Xhelal Neziri for two consecutive terms, while in...

Goran Lefkov Edward Joseph Snowden was born on June 21, 1983 and is a former American computer intelligence consultant. He disclosed highly classified information from the US National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013. He was employed by a subcontractor company. The materials revealed by Snowden exposed global surveillance programs, many of them run by the NSA, with the help of telecommunications companies and European governments as partners. In 2013,...

Goran Lefkov The story of Aleksandar Obradovikj began in 2014. As a member of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, he was appointed general manager of the factory in Krushik, near Valjevo, Serbia. The new director soon clashed with the staff when he saw what was going on inside. He began to collect examples of bad management. A year later, in an investigation, colleagues from the Balkan Investigative Reporters Network...

Goran Lefkov Mossack Fonseca is one of the most famous cases ever reported in the world of investigative journalism. The reason for this is over 11 million documents that emerged from the company Mossack Fonseca, which was used by many billionaires for money laundering. They used tax havens, where the trail of criminally acquired wealth was concealed. The history of this story began in 2015. Mossack Fonseca was a...

Goran Lefkov Silver Meikar is a striking figure in investigative journalism who remained faithful to the principles in all the positions he held in Estonian society and in the European Parliament. Born in 1978 in Tartu, he started his political activities in his student days, when he was elected a member of the Tartu city council. He finished his education in his hometown, where he started his career. In...