<p>In this issue</p>
<p>The corruption has  deeply entered the sport arena. Even the top sports are affected. The  World Football Federation had to suspend two of its members from the top  management after it was revealed that they sold their votes during the  process of selecting the location for the next football world  championship. Stimulated by the more frequent corruption scandals on its  territory, Switzerland, the country in which many world organizations  have their headquarters, announced stricter anti-corruption regulations.  In Kosovo, the government had to cancel the agreement with one US  company, which was selected through direct negotiation without the  participation of other companies, but only after the affair was  disclosed by the media. The world scientists have detected and found  evidence to support the claims of the relatedness of corruption with  other societal phenomena in the country, such as the level of economic  development, respect of human rights and claim that corruption is  symptom of deep economic and social diseases in the society.</p>
<p>In this issue of the  monthly newsletter, we present the sections on anticorruption and public  procurement from the latest European Commission’s Progress Report for  Macedonia. In both these areas, the EC has observed certain progress,  emphasizing that the corruption is wide spread and continues to pose a  serious problem. In terms of the public procurement, the observations  from last year still apply. However, the special focus this year is  placed on the lack of capacity of the public administration in this area  and the need for strengthening the system of legal remedies in public  procurement.</p>
<p>In addition, we report  the address of the President of the Council of Europe's Group of States  against Corruption (GRECO), Drago Kos, on the corruption in public  procurement at the Public Procurement Conference held in Skopje in  October. He suggests that for combating corruption in public procurement  the good law meeting the requirements of the European Union directives  is needed, but not sufficient for protecting the public funds from  corruption. According to Kos, anti-corruption specialists should be  involved in the public procurement in order to analyze the existing  legislation from the aspect of combating corruption. Kos recommends to  those making decisions about public finances to be as careful and  responsible as when they are making decisions about their personal  finances. We also present few of the numerous media reports published  about the conference.</p>
<p>As the criminal becomes  more organized and widespread, spilling over the boundaries of a state,  even a region, it is necessary for the investigative reporters to  become more organized. However, due to various reasons, it seems this  type of journalism is facing difficult days. Therefore, the  investigative reporters, non-governmental organizations and donors that  support these networks from Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Czech  Republic,  Poland, Bulgaria, Serbia and Macedonia met this November in Chisinau in  Moldova, sharing their experiences and discussing the future  possibilities for enhancing the cross-boundary cooperation in  investigative reporting.</p>
<p>We hope that with this  issue of the monthly newsletter by providing you diverse topics we will  encourage you to think of taking measures for reducing the corruption in  our society, which according to the scientists is interrelated and  depends on many factors in the society.</p>
<p><a href="../images/stories/mak_br10_ang_final.pdf" title="The tenth MAK issue can be found here"> </a><a href="../images/stories/mak_br10_ang_final.pdf">The tenth MAK issue can be found here</a></p>