North Macedonia’s Judiciary ‘Nearing Collapse’, Rights Monitor Warns
Vasko MagleshovSkopjeBIRNJuly 27, 202607:53Fair trials advocate Ivana Petkovska tells BIRN that political interference and underfunding are pushing the justice system to the brink. For Ivana Petkovska, the European Commission's latest rule-of-law report this month highlighted very familiar themes for North Macedonia – political pressure on the courts, insufficient funding and the limited impact of legal reforms. The programme coordinator at the the All for Fair Trials Coalition, a leading judicial monitoring organisation in North Macedonia, said the report reinforces what watchdogs like hers have been saying for years.
- ▪Vasko MagleshovSkopjeBIRNJuly 27, 202607:53Fair trials advocate Ivana Petkovska tells BIRN that political interference and underfunding are pushing the justice system to the brink.
- ▪For Ivana Petkovska, the European Commission's latest rule-of-law report this month highlighted very familiar themes for North Macedonia – political pressure on the courts, insufficient funding and the limited impact of legal reforms.
- ▪The programme coordinator at the the All for Fair Trials Coalition, a leading judicial monitoring organisation in North Macedonia, said the report reinforces what watchdogs like hers have been saying for years.
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Vasko MagleshovSkopjeBIRNJuly 27, 202607:53Fair trials advocate Ivana Petkovska tells BIRN that political interference and underfunding are pushing the justice system to the brink. For Ivana Petkovska, the European Commission's latest rule-of-law report this month highlighted very familiar themes for North Macedonia – political pressure on the courts, insufficient funding and the limited impact of legal reforms. The programme coordinator at the the All for Fair Trials Coalition, a leading judicial monitoring organisation in North Macedonia, said the report reinforces what watchdogs like hers have been saying for years.
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