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{"title":"PREVENTION / SUPPRESSION OF CORRUPTION - A NEVER ENDING STORY","authors":"M. Rep, Dragana Čvorović","doi":"10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p31","url":null,"abstract":"3.5 billion euros or 8.5 % of the gross domestic product is lost in Slovenia on an annual basis due to corruption. By signing the coalition agreement, the Government of the Republic of Slovenia has committed itself to reform the legislation and provide tools for more efficient functioning of the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption (hereinafter CPC) in order to combat corruption and economic crime more effectively. The amendment to the Integrity and Prevention of Corruption Act (hereinafter IPCA) is intended to provide a more appropriate regulatory framework that would contribute to a more effective fight against corruption. However, according to representatives of the CPC, legislation changes still do not answer some of the key questions and dilemmas in the functioning of the Commission. The deficiencies relate primarily to the inadequately regulated procedure used by the Commission to investigate suspected corruption, suspected breaches of integrity and systemic controls. The next set of questions relates to the proposed solutions regarding the nomination and appointment process. Corrections in this regard are also recommended by international organizations. At the outset, the current Act is rated as proficient. According to the Commission, the stagnation of Slovenia in terms of the Corruption Perceptions Index is also a result of an inappropriate response or even absence of the response from decision-makers when corruption is detected by the competent authorities. The latter thus affects people's fairly negative opinions. Slovenia has been ranked in 35th place in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, which has put the country below the EU 62 average again. Transparency International Slovenia also points out that no progress has been noticed in the fight against corruption since 2012. What is more, the field of whistleblower protection is also worth mentioning in this respect. In October 2019, the EU Whistleblower Protection Directive was adopted. Whistleblower protection is an area that is progressing rapidly, mainly because of its reach and complexity. The main drawback of current Slovenian legislation is that anticorruption legislation has very limited protection for whistleblowers, which nevertheless represent an extremely important source of information in the fight against corruption. Slovenia has been waiting for 6 years for the amendment to the main Act, the IPCA, to be adopted. It is also noted that there has been little progress with reforms in other areas as well. For progress, effective regulation of the whole area of anti-corruption is in fact necessary. Keywords: The Commission for the Prevention of Corruption, the Integrity and Prevention of Corruption Act, Corruption Perception Index, Transparency International","PeriodicalId":369411,"journal":{"name":"THE EURO-ATLANTIC VALUES IN THE BALKAN COUNTRIES","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114654344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"INFORMATION FOR SAFE USE OF PAYMENT CARDS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE MUNICIPALITY OF PRILEP","authors":"Keti Nikolovska, Snezana Mojsoska, Stevco Jolakoski","doi":"10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p17","url":null,"abstract":"The main reasons for the increase of the use of payment cards such as ATM cards, credit, and debit cards and their major role in the consumer’s life as a means of payment are the economic growth, the consumer’s modern way of living, and the impact of sellers for simple- non-cash payment, the modernization of computer technology, etc. Their increased use leads to the increase of frauds with them. The aim of this paper is to see the extent to which the information for the safe use of payment cards is an instrument that assumes the role of a preventive measure. In a broader sense, this research will contribute to raising the level of security of the users, because the information itself offers a wider range of knowledge in the field of safe use. As a research technique, in order to respond to the set goals, a survey questionnaire was used as an intended sample, the survey was conducted in the city of Prilep, and it was with even distribution in relation to the gender of the respondents. The conclusion in this paper is that information is an important prerequisite for preventing possible abuses, and also the information affects the increase in the number of users of payment cards. Keywords (italicized, 11 pt.): credit cards, information, security, fraud","PeriodicalId":369411,"journal":{"name":"THE EURO-ATLANTIC VALUES IN THE BALKAN COUNTRIES","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129141491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE INFLUENCE OF THE MODEL OF PHYSICAL TRAINING ON THE EDUCATION OF POLICE OFFICER CANDIDATES","authors":"Jonche Ivanovski","doi":"10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p15","url":null,"abstract":"Every country implements a specific system of police education within its educational institutions, and thus helps the police officer candidates to acquire the necessary competences, skills and knowledge through the specific implementation of the educational plans and programs. During the educational process, it is crucial to establish high quality training that would enable gradual theoretical and professional transformation of police officers, that would be focused to meet the demands arising from the complex social and security conditions in which the police profession is pursued. The Idrizovo training center of the Ministry of internal affairs implements a contemporary police educational model that is in accordance with the national and international quality standards and which serves to prepare the future police officers to professionally perform their tasks and duties. Within this educational model, a specific program for physical training is developed, that aims to provide systematic development and improvement of the basic biomotor skills within the field of martial arts. For the purpose of this study, the physical training program was tested in order to gain insights into the acquired changes and transformations of the basic biomotor abilities of the police officer candidates. Based on the analysis results of the applied statistical procedures, it was established that during the one year police officer course, positive changes of the biomotor structure of the candidates have occurred, but still, in order to meet the educational and professional quality criteria, it is necessary that the majority of candidates gain more points in the tests for bio-motor skills. Keywords: police education, police officer candidates, physical training, biomotor skills, descriptive statistical analysis","PeriodicalId":369411,"journal":{"name":"THE EURO-ATLANTIC VALUES IN THE BALKAN COUNTRIES","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130944509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"BENEFITS OF THE EURO-ATLANTIC INTEGRATION FOR THE BALKAN COUNTRIES - COMPARATIVE EXPERIENCES OF MONTENEGRO AND NORTH MACEDONIA","authors":"Dražen Božović, Stevko Stefanoski","doi":"10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p03","url":null,"abstract":"Following the end of the confrontation between the former Military Blocs and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact in 1991, after four decades of existence, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) lost its ideological, political and military opponent. Initial expectations were that in such a global constellation of relations NATO would lose its sense of existence. However, as previously when Alliance faced with numerous challenges maintaining internal cohesion, from this situation came up with even stronger strategic concept, focusing on its own transformation, redefinition of its role and expanding the tasks, primarily on development of new partnerships and preventive actions in unstable and crisis areas. NATO established a new policy, relations, and an open dialogue with the former opponents. The Partnership for Peace (PfP) was created as a program aimed at cooperation and confidence building between the NATO members and other South Eastern European and former USSR countries, while countries that came after the collapse of the former Yugoslavia began their Euro-Atlantic integration processes after the end of the military conflicts in the late 1990s. Both countries that will be comparatively covered by this research are successors of the former Yugoslavia. They have had different paths and processes of independence and transition, and also their Euro-Atlantic integration processes have begun different and faced different challenges. The Republic of North Macedonia brought the decision for NATO membership in 1993, and in 1995 it joined the Partnership for Peace Program. On the other hand, Montenegro began its processes much later, after it became independent in 2006, and became a full-fledged NATO member on June 5th 2017. The Republic of North Macedonia faced a veto by a permanent NATO member over the widely known name issue and unfortunately did 46 not join NATO together with Albania and Croatia in 2009. After that, the long path to the full membership is seen to be accomplished at the beginning of 2020. Through the topic of this research by comparative method will broadly analyze all circumstances of the integration processes for both countries, while research questions will be directed to the already visible and expected benefits of euro-atlantic integrations. The particular research attention of this paper will be paid on the military and defense benefits as well as to other consecutive benefits, such as improvement of the overall security of the both countries and the region, strengthening the rule of law, economy, businesses, investments, tourism etc. Keywords: Euro-Atlantic integration, security, partnership, cooperation, benefits, stability","PeriodicalId":369411,"journal":{"name":"THE EURO-ATLANTIC VALUES IN THE BALKAN COUNTRIES","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124512300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE UNSCRUPULOUS TREATMENT OF THE DISEASED IN THE MACEDONIAN CRIMINAL CODE","authors":"Katerina Krstevska Savovska","doi":"10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p16","url":null,"abstract":"The unscrupulous treatment of the diseased is encompassed within the Chapter 21 of the Macedonian Criminal Code titled as Criminal Acts against Human Health. Having in mind the basic provision of this criminal act as defined in the Article 207, i.e. the physician who, when providing physician’s assistance, applies clearly inadequate means or manner of treatment, or does not apply proper hygienic measures, or in general, acts unscrupulously and herewith causes deterioration of the health of their patient, in this paper we will discuss not only the Criminal Code, but also the other relevant legislation. On the other hand, by the means of scientific analysis and description of the statistical data disposable to the Macedonian State Statistical Office, the detecting and proving activities of the Macedonian law enforcement organs shall be noted through the submitted criminal reports, initiated accusations and delivered judgments for sanctioning of the perpetrators of this criminal act. Finally, the Paper shall elaborate specific court cases with the subject of the unscrupulous treatment of the diseased. Keywords: unscrupulous treatment; diseased person; criminal act, Criminal Code; Republic of Macedonia.","PeriodicalId":369411,"journal":{"name":"THE EURO-ATLANTIC VALUES IN THE BALKAN COUNTRIES","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121393183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ADAPTATION OF YOUNG INMATES TO INCARCERATION: MACEDONIAN CASE","authors":"Vesna Stefanovska Stojkovska","doi":"10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p08","url":null,"abstract":"The incarceration is stressful and traumatic experience for everyone. The inmates can adopt different coping or adjustment strategies to the new environment. What they adopt depends on the environmental factors and personal characteristics, as well as of their own sense of protection from victimization. In the literature, three types of adaptation are predominantly recognized: cooperation, withdrawal and resistance and violent behavior. Based on that, this paper examines the manifestation and connection of different adopting strategies of young inmates with their personal as well as institutional features during incarceration. The analysis is based on qualitative data collected by using in-depth interviews with incarcerated young inmates in one educational-correctional facility. The main findings pertain to the recognition that young inmates have adopted several coping strategies in order to adopt to the prison life, but mainly develop violent behaviour during their incarceration. This small scale survey is particularly valuable in filling up the exiting empirical gap and findings within criminological literature and might be used as basis for developing prerequisites for eliminating, or at least, mitigating negative consequences of the deprivations related to loss of liberty, security, autonomy etc. generated by pains of imprisonment. Key words: adaptation, young inmates, incarceration, correctional facility, circle of violence","PeriodicalId":369411,"journal":{"name":"THE EURO-ATLANTIC VALUES IN THE BALKAN COUNTRIES","volume":"155 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134229301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 25 YEARS AFTER DAYTON – BETWEEN THE CLASSICAL LIJPHART’S CONSOCIATION AND HIS NEWLY INTRODUCED TERM FOR CONSENSUAL DEMOCRACY","authors":"Nikola Ambarkov","doi":"10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p07","url":null,"abstract":"In 2020, Bosnia and Herzegovina marks 25 years since the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement. The arrangement that was set for the country in Dayton 1995 is referred to the consociational model, which in the policy and science of conflict management was launched by Arend Lijphart. The most important consociational pillars - the grand coalition government, decentralization, adequate representation of the three constituent nations (Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks) and the veto right, can be recognized in the Dayton political system in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As a political project of passive coexistence and agreement among ethnic elites, the consociational democracy proved to be a very important creator of socio-political processes in many post-conflict regions, regardless of the fact that even its most frenetic supporters confirm that this approach is not perfect. However, in his more recent works, the founding father of this model, Arend Lijphart, abandons the problem of divided societies, and redefines this model of consociational democracy in a way that makes it refer to any society in which there are pluralistic interests. In accordance with the change, he introduces the term - consensual democracy. The core of this consensual model still encompasses the above-mentioned consociational pillars (multiparty government, decentralization, and proportional representation - proportional electoral system) but, now, those are complemented with some new indicators such as interest groups corporatism, bicameralism, constitutional rigidity, developed judicial review, independent central bank and executive – legislative balance. The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the political system of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 25 years after Dayton, through the prism of these parameters, in a way that shows that, Bosnia and Herzegovina not only meets the classical consociational criteria, but also the parameters of the newly introduced Lijphart’s concept for consensual democracy which can be noted to a large degree in its political order.","PeriodicalId":369411,"journal":{"name":"THE EURO-ATLANTIC VALUES IN THE BALKAN COUNTRIES","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114744545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"GLOBAL RISKS IN BUSINESS OPERATING ENVIRONMENT: ECONOMIC CHALLENGES OF ENTREPRENEURS","authors":"Ivana Marinović Matović","doi":"10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p27","url":null,"abstract":"Accepting and approaching to global business as an economic development model implies growing variety of business risks. Competition in the global market is increasing, and demands for entrepreneurs to further adapt, and transform their business digitally, are high. Managing the global business environment risks is becoming imperative for organizations that are operating in the global market. Further development of global business, as well as the challenges facing global organizations, will be explored in this paper through the analysis of recent works in the field of geoeconomics and global business. The subject of the paper is to describe the current state and development of global business environment, dominated by the need and ability to jointly create products of global economy by inclusion of world resources. The aim of the paper is to investigate, through the available scientific research, the current conditions for creating global products using common global resources, and to analyse the environmental risks of new global business model in the first quarter of 21st century. The paper examines the challenges that entrepreneurs face in the global business environment, and focuses on the specific business risks typical for entrepreneurs. The conclusion of the paper will provide further guidance to empirically determine the development of global products in the Republic of Serbia by offering its specific resources, thereby making the entrepreneurship in the Republic of Serbia more actively involved in new global business model. Keywords: business environment, global business, geoeconomics, risk management, entrepreneurship","PeriodicalId":369411,"journal":{"name":"THE EURO-ATLANTIC VALUES IN THE BALKAN COUNTRIES","volume":"344 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123350775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORAL SYSTEM AND THE QUALITY OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE IN KOSOVO","authors":"Ibrahim Shala","doi":"10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p36","url":null,"abstract":"The parliamentary electoral system in Kosovo is special; the whole territory of the state is an electoral zone, where voted for the party with an open list of candidates for deputies, at the beginning it was voted for 10 candidates, and currently for five candidates. Despite the minutes of the polling centers, the votes are once again counted at the state level by the Counting and Results Center. Argumentation of the thesis that, this form of voting enables the voter vote not to go to the selected candidate, but the close party leadership decides during the recount process for the desired list of deputies. The main focus will be on arguing the essence of the problem that, this electoral system deforms the will of the voter. It enables the creation of party cliques, close informal groups in the party, whose willpower will be reflected in the governance of the state and the quality of proclaimed democracy. Party clicks are a precondition for corruption and organized crime. In such circumstances, reform of the parliamentary electoral system is necessary. Argumentation of the direct effects of the type of electoral system on the quality of democratic governance. Keywords: vote alienation, party clique, institutional corruption, authoritarian governance.","PeriodicalId":369411,"journal":{"name":"THE EURO-ATLANTIC VALUES IN THE BALKAN COUNTRIES","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125369290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"INTERWEAVING OF EUROPEAN AND THE VALUES OF THE COUNTRIES OF WESTERN BALKANS","authors":"Saše Gerasimoski","doi":"10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20544/icp.11.01.20.p01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":369411,"journal":{"name":"THE EURO-ATLANTIC VALUES IN THE BALKAN COUNTRIES","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127177913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}