North Macedonia’s institutions cannot build public trust without personal accountability, says Gordan Georgiev, whose organisation has been examining integrity among public officials.
Elena Gagovska
“Integrity may seem like an abstract classification, but in essence it is very concrete,” said Gordan Georgiev, the head of the think tank Forum for Reasonable Policies.
“A lack of integrity does not only mean corruption. It is primarily connected with ethics,” added Georgiev, whose organisation this year has been examining whether people in positions of power and state institutions act responsibly in their dealings with the public.
The Forum for Reasonable Policies has already published two reports on this topic. Their aim, Georgiev said, is not simply to criticise officials, but to identify problematic behaviour, contact those involved, explain what went wrong and offer recommendations for improvement.
Georgiev argues that North Macedonia’s integrity crisis is most visible when institutions designed to uphold ethical standards fail to meet them themselves.
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