CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND PECULIARITIES OF CORRUPTION IN THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA.

Over the years, especially since 2010, in the Republic of North Macedonia, at all social levels, the phenomenon of corruption is talked about and discussed loudly. The European Commission has assessed that corruption in North Macedonia is widespread in all spheres of the state and remains worrying. Although there is progress in the harmonization of legislation with the European Union, there is a delay in the practical implementation of laws, and instead of progress, corruption and bribery are increasing! The assumption is that the causes of corruption in RNM are from the influence of politics in state institutions, especially in the judicial and independent ones, until the capture of the state by stripping the state together with its own institutions of professionalism and independent work. The research aims to identify the causes of the high level of corruption in the country, as a social phenomenon, using the method of content analysis, the behavior and orthopractice of state policymakers, to suggest the raising of social consciousness to prevent corruption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]