Doing business is easy in Northern Macedonia and the legal framework is largely in line with international standards, corruption is a persistent problem. Large foreign investors working through technological industrial development zones generally show positive experiences with investments. However, the full regulatory environment remains complex and frequent legal and regulatory changes, together with inconsistent interpretations of the rules, create an unpredictable business environment conducive to corruption, ”the State Department report said.
The Cabinet of the Deputy Prime Minister for the Fight against Corruption says that all the remarks of the report will be taken into account.
Specifically, in the fight against corruption, certain weaknesses have been highlighted before 2019 and those weaknesses are being addressed through measures that are part of the Anti-Corruption Plan, through which we are currently working on improving the law on public procurement and approval of internal procedures in every institution “, stressed the Cabinet of the Deputy Prime Minister for fight against corruption.
The Alliance for Albanians says that the criticism in the report is due to corrupt officials who continue with the same working methods as their predecessors. The party reacts by saying that this is proof that in the country the problem is not the laws, but their implementation.
