18th session of Working group 4 – Justice, Freedom and Security: “The New Pact on Migration and Asylum: Security and Integration Challenges in Europe, with a focus on the Western Balkans and the Republic of North Macedonia

Yesterday, on 29.01.2026, at the "Club of MPs," we successfully held the 18th session of Working Group 4 – Justice, Freedom, and Security (Chapter 24), dedicated to the topic "The New Pact on Migration and Asylum: Security and Integration Challenges in Europe, with a focus on the Western Balkans and the Republic of North Macedonia." The event was attended by over 75 representatives from institutions, the civil sector, academia, and the diplomatic corps, aiming to exchange experiences and formu ...

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17th session of Working group 3 – Judiciary and Fundamental rights (Chapter 23): The Constitutional Court at a Crossroads between European Standards and Domestic Challenges

On September 2, 2025, the 17th session on Chapter 23 – Judiciary and Fundamental Rights was held, featuring a comprehensive discussion on topic: "European Standards for Constitutional Judiciary as a Challenge for the Constitutional Court of the Republic of North Macedonia".  The session was organized within the NCEU-MK project, supported by the Delegation of the European Union and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic through SlovakAid. The session was officiall ...

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Sixth session of Working group 6 – Anticorruption: Administrative Capacity in Practice: North Macedonia Is Nowhere Near What It Aspires or Needs to Be!

The reform processes essential for North Macedonia’s EU integration must encompass transparency in public financial management, the use of digitalisation and artificial intelligence as tools to reduce corruption, systematic tracking and open data on public assets, enhanced institutional accountability and integrity, evidence-based policymaking, and continuity and motivation of human resources in public administration. This was the key conclusion of the 6th session of Working Group 6 – Anti- ...

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Meeting of the Program Councils of Working Group 4 – Justice, Freedom and Security, and Working Group 6 – Anti-Corruption

On June 18, 2025, a working meeting was held with the program councils of Working Group 4 – Justice, Freedom and Security, and Working Group 6 – Anti-Corruption. The meeting was marked by constructive and dynamic discussion, with active participation from all present members. The main item on the agenda was the planning of the upcoming sessions of both working groups, including defining and finalizing the topics, identifying relevant participants at the national, regional, ...

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THROUGH REGIONAL INITIATIVES TO SUCCESSFUL REFORMS IN JUDICIARY AND FIGHTING CORRUPTION

[foogallery id="11373"] Proper implementation of reforms and rule of law as condition for faster EU membership are some of the points from today’s Fourth Regional Expert meeting on Cluster 1 “Fundamental values” within the project "Let Justice Rule the Region", which marks the completion of the annual activities of the National Convention for European Union in the Republic of North Macedonia (NCEU-MK), supported by the EU Delegation and SlovakAid and the Regional Initiative “"Let Just ...

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15 SESSION OF THE WORKING GROUP 4, ‘JUSTICE, FREEDOM AND SECURITY’ (CHAPTER 24): STRENGHTENED INTERINSTITUCIONAL COOPERATION AS A PRECONDITION FOR MORE EFFICIENT FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS

[foogallery id="11008"] Increasing the operational and strategic exchange of data and coordinating joint actions with international organizations and local bodies in the field of interinstitutional and international cooperation in fighting financial crime is needed. Developing intelligence-led policing (ILP) in the agencies for better strategic leading the cases, as well as increasing the capacities for trainings of the personnel, introducing specialized teams and technical strengthening of t ...

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SEVENTH PLENARY CONFERENCE OF NCEU-MK: IT IS TIME FOR LEADERSHIP AND WISE DECISIONS ON THE PATH TO EU

“Geopolitcs has created new possibilities for EU enlargement, but these windows can not stay open forever. My advice is not to repeat the mistakes from the past. Now you can use that possibility. It is time for leadership”, Miroslav Lajčák, special EU representative for the dialogue Belgrade-Prishtina and regional matters of Western Balkans said at today’s Seventh Plenary conference of the National Convention for European Union in Republic of North Macedonia (NCEU-MK) on topic “Cluster ...

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GREATER INVESTMENTS IN AGRICULTURE AND IN HUMAN POTENTIAL TOWARDS EU

[foogallery id="11203"] Devoted process for implementation of quality agricultural policy based on human capacities with their expertise, who have to be well educated and trained on the way to EU is needed. Greater intersectoral cooperation and dialogue involving all stakeholders, as well as investments and consistency in the cycle of policies is also needed. These are part of the recommendations of today’s 12 session of the Working group 1-“Agriculture and rural development” (Chapte ...

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Digitalization and reorganization in judiciary will contribute towards more qualitative judiciary and efficient court procedures

The Government and the relevant institutions should foster the process of developing and full implementation of the Platform for interoperability among courts and other relevant institutions. Mechanism for fast securing necessary information and data through appointing intern contact persons with security certificates and privileged access to data from relevant institutions should be established, who can get the necessary information for court procedures without sending formal requests in a form ...

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EMMK and ZMAI signed Memorandum for cooperation

[foogallery id="10779"] The European movement in the Republic of North Macedonia (EMMK) and the Association for research and analyses (ZMAI) have signed Memorandum for cooperation. With this Memorandum a frame for joint cooperation and support of activities that promote European integration, regional cooperation, research, analyses and other projects connected to this topics will be established. EMMK and ZMAI with the Memorandum commit themselves to support the activities of the platform for d ...

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QUALITY AND RELIABLE DATA-CRUCIAL FOR REALIZATION OF THE REFORM PROCESSES NECESSARY FOR EU

[foogallery id="10752"] Institutional strengthening of the systems for collecting and analyses of data in the public sector, integration of indicators for rule of law and control of the corruption in the state strategies, as well as introduction of mandatory transparency of all state institutions through publishing data in an open format, development of program for education for managing data in the public sector and promotion of the portals for open data with improved visualization for analyti ...

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JOINT MEETING OF THE WORKING GROUPS

On 21st of august 2024 in hotel “Panoramika” joint meeting of the working groups was held, whereas representatives of the 5 working groups were present as well as the state counsellor in the Ministry of European affairs, Dragan Tilev, who presented the actual conditions with which we face in regards to euro-integrations. At the beginning prof. Gurovska, the national coordinator of NCEU-MK and president of the European movement addressed, thanking all present and highlighting that this str ...

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