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Meeting of Public Prosecutor Kocevski with Euroambassador Rokas, in focus of discussions the EC Report

by AI | 21.Nov 2024 | Europe in brief AI

We were asked to express the needs and financial implications for all these reforms in the proposed budget projections for 2025. We did that. However, for the reforms we have promised as a state, which relate to the work of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, almost no additional funds are foreseen in the draft budget for the next year. Again this year, instead of the legally determined amount for the Prosecutor’s Office at 0.4 percent of the total state budget, we are allocated around 14 million euros or a little more than 0.2 percent, which is half of the legal minimum, informed Kocevski.

Meeting of the Public Prosecutor of North Macedonia, Ljupcho Kocevski (right), and the Head of the EU Delegation in Skopje, Michalis Rokas (left). Photo: MIA

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Skopje – The Public Prosecutor of North Macedonia Ljupco Kocevski met today with the head of the EU Delegation in Skopje, Euro-ambassador Michalis Rokas. At the meeting, as announced by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Kocevski informed about the active steps taken for improvements in all areas cited as recommendations in the latest European Commission Progress Report on our country’s progress and the Reform Agenda which is soon to be implemented. 

As a key challenge stated by Kocevski, which the European Commission also notes in the report, are the insufficient resources provided to the institution for all the activities it undertakes.

– We were asked in the proposed budget projections for 2025 to express the needs and financial implications for all these reforms. We did so. However, for the reforms we as a country have committed to, which relate to the work of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, hardly any additional funds are foreseen in the proposed budget for the next year. Again this year, instead of the legally determined amount for the Prosecutor’s Office at 0.4 percent of the total state budget, we are assigned about 14 million euros or slightly more than 0.2 percent, which is half of the legal minimum, informed Kocevski.

He also acquainted Euro-ambassador Rokas with the challenges from the aspect of understaffing of the prosecutor’s offices, that is, the lack of public prosecutors and clerks, as well as the obsolescence of the equipment. (November 21, 2024)

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