MACEDONIA
February 1st, 2004
BY ALAN OSBORNTHE EUROPEAN Union is to pay for a new software system, computers and other information technology equipment to improve the functioning of the judiciary in the former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia. The EU aid - worth in total Euro 1.9 million - follows a report detailing serious inadequacies in the legal system in Macedonia, including the fact that judges there had to deal with about 800 cases annually compared to a maximum of 300 in the EU itself. Brussels' will finance delivery of 320 computers, together with printers and other IT items, and ...
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