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 Go ahead with the numbers"What is your budget?" - a colleague of mine asked the president of a civil society organization 6-7 years ago. Slightly offended, the president of that organization responded: "Our organization is honest and we do not have such things"!!! |  |
Interview: Zoran Jacev, president of Transparency Macedonia
It is hard for the citizens to realize their right to access to informationThe president of the civil society organization Transparency Macedonia, Zoran Jacev, in the middle of September attracted public’s attention by presenting the results from the public opinion survey on access to information. In Macedonia the Law for Access to Information is still in a phase of preparation and at the same time 41% of the surveyed citizens do not know yet that their right to information is guaranteed by the Constitution. Jacev, in this occasion, points out that “there is almost no authority in the transition countries that is immediately and at any time ready to bring laws that will harm its comfort in ruling”. | |
Projects’ sustainability I
Institutional capacity provides fundsIn the Republic of Macedonia, according to some evaluations, around 1,000 projects are carried out a year. In the edition of Projects of the Macedonian Center for International Cooperation for 2003, 68.5 projects of civic organizations were covered.
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Religious truth and dialogueSince long ago we have known that the ancient metaphysical concept of truth is the one that does not stand the burden of reality, or it stands it contrasting itself. But what is actually truth, in an existential sense, if the power of lie, forcing to lie, is deeply inside it? Is this the truth that legitimately belongs to the internal experience of thought? | |
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