On September 18, the Foundation Open Society – Macedonia (FOSM) and the Macedonian Centre for European Training (MCET) organized a debate at which the findings of the monitoring of the High level accession dialogue (HLAD) were presented through an analysis of the fulfillment of the objectives and measures of the Operational roadmap. The general conclusion of the ten speakers from civil society organizations, who closely monitor the areas covered by the Operational roadmap, is that the measures and objectives contained in the roadmap are incomplete, not ambitious enough, and mainly on a technical level, do not offer actual solutions to key problems. It was also found that many of the problems in reality, which in turn are part of the five areas defined in the Operational roadmap (freedom of expression, rule of law, public administration, electoral law and market economy) are not at all included. NGOs agreed that there is a lack of essential inclusiveness of the process, i.e. only the civil society sector is involved in just two of the areas – freedom of expression and elections, and for the other three areas inclusion is just formal, i.e. on a level of formal meetings where they are informed about the achievements and progress in the implementation of the objectives and measures.

More information: Conclusions from the debate and Press release

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