Tag: Freedom House

North Macedonia as a state in transition experienced democratic progress during the past year, with an improvement of 0.07 points i.e. it has increased the democracy index from 3,75 to 3,82, unlike most of the countries in the region, states the report by Freedom House titled "Nations in Transit 2021." This is the second-best result out of 29 countries...

In company with Albania, Montenegro, Serbia and Hungary, North Macedonia in Freedom House's report "Freedom in the World 2021" has been rated a partly free country. With its 66 points out of a potential 100 during 2021, the country saw little improvement compared to last year, when Freedom House has marked the political rights and civil freedoms with...

According to the writers’s report, the change of government in June created a chance for the country to make a turn after many years of being a captured state and to resolve disputes with its neighbors. On the scale from 1 to 7, where the number one is the best score and the number seven marks the lowest level of...

The International Crisis Group (ICG) in its latest report has put Macedonia in a group of countries where the situation is rapidly worsening. Macedonia is now in the company of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Gambia, Iraq, Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan), the Republic of Congo, and even Syria is included in the same group. All countries in this group on the list, are continually on the...

The latest report from "Freedom House" officially confirms that the media in Macedonia is not free, and this is the result of Nikola Gruevski’s criminal reign, paid with the taxpayers' money, said the SDSM after the report was published. "Anti-state politics by Nikola Gruevski have suffocated the freedom of speech and the freedom of the media. Gruevski resolved to abuse and pressured...

According to the latest report from "Freedom House" for the freedom of the media, the status for Macedonia went from "partly free" and was reduced to a "Not Free" country due to the discovery of the government illegally wiretapping journalists, corruption among officials and media owners, and the increasing threats and attacks on media workers. " Macedonia’s media landscape is...

The American organization 'Freedom House' which monitors the state of democracy throughout the world, including political freedoms and human rights, has, in its Democratic Governance report for 2016 has given Macedonia a 4.29 result, which is the worst result the country has had in the past 10 years. (The scale of Freedom House ranges from a score of 1 to...

In the latest report of the relevant international organization "Freedom House", Macedonia is again regarded as a country with a hybrid rule, reacts SDSM. In the statement of the opposition reads that the report of "Freedom House" contains unambiguous criticism of the implementation of the electoral process, the situation in the media, the threat to the fundamental human rights and...

"Transitional governments or hybrid regimes" is the group in which Macedonia remains in the last report of "Freedom House" entitled "Countries in Transition". Macedonia was downgraded to this level in the last report of "Freedom House". The latest reads that Macedonia continues to show a decline, especially in the categories: electoral process and civil society. Of the seven countries in...

Macedonia has the worst result on the Balkans in terms of media freedom, reported "Freedom House" in the latest report on media freedom. "The new restrictive laws and violence against journalists contributed to the global decline in press freedom in 2014, bringing it to its lowest level in more than 10 years," reads the report. The report reads that, in the...