Visualization – Parliament openness in the region and Macedonia

In cooperation with the partners from the “ACTION SEE” regional NGO network, Metamorphosis Foundation for Internet and Society prepared the policy paper in which we analyze the level of transparency, openness, accountability of the parliaments in the Western Balkans region.

According to the Openness Index, strongest points of the Macedonian Parliament are the control mechanisms with high 83% and its awareness that amounts to 76%. However, the Parliament adopted its very first Code of Ethics just recently, on 11 June 2018, and there aren’t indicators of its application.

The entire analysis is available here.

Towards Harmonization of the Legal Framework of North Macedonia with the EU Digital Services Act

This text is a translation of part of the analysis “Towards a Feasible Implementation of the Digital Services Act in the Western Balkans” and presents the results of the research conducted during March and April 2024, with the aim of assessing the readiness of the public and civil sectors in North Macedonia for the adoption […]

MONITORING OF ONLINE NEWS PORTALS COVERAGE OF 2024 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS NORTH MACEDONIA

This report provides an analysis of articles concerning the parliamentary elections in North Macedonia, published by thirty pre-selected online news portals (hereinafter referred to as ONPs) between April 15 and May 10, 2024. Among these portals, twenty-two publish content in the Macedonian language, while eight in Albanian. The monitoring included ONPs identified in the list […]

Stability Under Threat – FIMI in North Macedonia

Being a point of interest for the world’s superpowers, and a country where the best thriving element is corruption, in the past decade North Macedonia has faced significant challenges related to Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI). Although some of the main compounds are domestic, meaning poor media professionalism and political turmoil, the lack of […]