With no precedent in contemporary Europe, let alone EU, the Macedonian Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services, which was proposed by the Government, stipulates in details the form and the content that the broadcasters with national concessions have to produce and broadcast.
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Between 2007 and 2015, Macedonia had five ministers for attracting foreign investments, the country was advertised in numerous media across the globe, the government organized around 60 road-shows in around 30 countries, 30 economic promoters were hired, special agency for foreign investments and export promotion was opened, as well as fifteen technological industrial development zones.
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Apart from policy changes and concrete action in the institutional practice, legislative interventions are required in order to ensure the basic principles of a democratic and European state are observed in the functioning of the UBK. The excessive power of the UBK and its interference in the work of “the leader of investigation” (SEGR, 5) undermines the country’s compliance with the Copenhagen criteria by way of compromising the independence of the judiciary (i.e., the prosecution). For these purposes, a minimum consensus along different party lines in the Parliament is indispensable as the precondition for reform processes in terms of legislation revision.
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