Publications

Handbook of Religious Holiday's Celebration

The Konrad Adenauer Foundation in cooperation with the five religious communities in the country is publishing a Handbook of Religious Holiday's Celebration. The author of the Handbook is Mr. Mitre Karagjozovski. The Handbook includes the major holidays from each of the five religious communities that are celebrated among the believers which have a specific holiday greeting phrase or expression. The Handbook of Religious Holiday's Celebration was distributed through the two daily printed newspapers: "Utrinski" and "Vecher" on Macedonian and "Lajme" on Albanian language.

Independence, Impartiality, Professionalism and Efficiency of the Judicial System

Analitical Report

This report is a résumé of a broader analysis with a complete and detailed analytical examination of the alignment with standards envisaged by the EUin this area.

Multi-religious Calendar 2015

The Konrad Adenauer Foundation in cooperation with the five religious communities in Republic of Macedonia has issued a Multi-religious Calendar 2015, including the more significant religious holidays from each religious community: Macedonian Orthodox Church, Islamic Religious Community, Catholic Church, United Methodist Church and Jewish Community. This calendar is issued traditionally by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in joint cooperation with the five religious communities since year 2011.

RIGHT TO CLEAN ENVIRONMENT - OBLIGATION OF EVERY CITIZEN AND COMPANY - REVIEW OF THE WASTE MANAGEMENT

POLICY BRIEF

The Policy Brief gives an overview of the Right to Clean Environment for the citizens and the legal entities, i.e. the right to clean environment in the field of waste management.

Political Parties and the Boundaries of Secularism in the Republic of Macedonia

Policy brief

The goal of this work is to define the boundaries of the Macedonian model of secularism, and to determine the ideological positions of the key political parties in the Republic of Macedonia regarding this issue. All of this is achieved through proper theoretical analysis, as well as analysis of the attitudes of the respective parties in the periods when the Republic of Macedonia voted the key legislation related to the nature of the Macedonian model of secularism.The Policy brief is available in Macedonian and Albanian language and can be downloaded free of charge from our web page.

REFORM OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT

Political Quarterly - POLITICAL TOUGHT 48

The topic of the 48th edition of Political Thought is Reform of Public Administration and Local Self-Government. The authors in this issue of Political Thought, through a versatile methodological debate and a variety of approaches – structuralist, institutionalist, social constructivist, and cultural – have given their academic, as well as practical contributions toward accomplishing the main goal, alongside specific suggestions for improving and avoiding the traps implicit in the negative phenomena (partisation and ethnicisation) inherent for both types of policies.

To go or not to go? - In contexts to the right to leave a country

POLICY BRIEF

The aim of this Policy Brief is to review the practices of the Macedonian border services in their treatment of certain categories of citizens, from the perspective of the legal protection provided by the competent authorities, and to help shape the answer to the question - "To go or not to go?", which from policy measure gained the dimension of struggle for individual human rights.

Research papers

Summer school "Religion, Ethnicity and Nationalism"

Over thirty young students from Macedonia participated at the Summer school titled as "Religion, Ethnicity and Nationalism", which was organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in cooperation with the five religious communities and the University "Euro-Balkan" in the period between 15-19 September 2014 in Skopje.

THE STATE OF ENERGY (IN)SECURITY IN MACEDONIA

POLICY BRIEF

The policy brief analyse the state of energy security in Macedonia and identifies the main issues hampering an improved energy security situation. It is an analysis of the relevant strategies and legal acts, statistic data, newspaper articles as well as of recent shifts in geopolitics concerning energy security.

Functioning Market Economy and Social (in)Equality

Political Quarterly - POLITICAL TOUGHT 47

The editorial board of the Political Thought magazine has decided to dedicate the penultimate issue of 2014 to a topic from the field of economy. In terms of contents, this issue of Political Thought offers a multitude of texts and analyses reflecting on the question of market economy and social inequality. The readers are provided with materials reviewing the world economic crisis, its specific impact in a local context, as well as the response to this phenomenon by the political players in the country.